i'm chris culliver in berlin good to have you with us and we start the show with a figure 10 percent according to some u.s. officials that's what's left to complete a trade deal between the united states and china and the stage for ending the now year long dispute is set and u.s. president donald trump will meet china's leaders at the g. 20 summit in japan later this week. president trump set off for asarco with many hoping he would take the steps needed to resolve his trade disputes with china his treasury secretary says a deal with beijing was 90 percent done when talks collapsed in may now there's optimism among world leaders that the remaining 10 percent is within reach. in regard to the u.s. china trade to expect the united states and china will constructively resolve the issue through dialogue including the us china meeting during the g 20 summit. that were at a time of very high tensions between the united states and china so joining the g 20 summit i hope we can have talks that will ease the tensions up with what many analysts say an out and out solution to the trade disputes