business reporter clifford coonan clifford we mentioned some criticism there a lot of people are saying this is a trade truce and not a trade deal what do you think i think that's right and i think you mentioned in your introduction there were details and i think that's what we're missing here we've got a lot of broad sweep coming from both sides on this but we still don't we know what the what the nuts and both of the deal are going to be some of the bigger issues like technology transfer there haven't been addressed old it's been a dresser a base of the u.s. farm products and how china has agreed to buy a certain amount of those so so far we're we're looking at very sort of baby steps and i think i think truce is the right description you know it's interesting donald trump when he 1st started this whole thing was talking about the structural changes needed in the chinese economy in terms of opening the market more in terms of some of the ip issue intellectual property you mentioned just a moment ago will try to make those steps will take those steps is that is that a reality well i th

let's check in with our tonics both clifford coonan who is in hong kong at the moment clifford are they really that difficult the us that is. this is it just because of china i think it's largely about china i think one of the things we're learning is that the truth doesn't like multilateralism it doesn't like dealing with a lot of people that wants you prefers dealing one on one. with you know he's been destructive the nation he's been destructive with the climate climate change summers and now he's taking aim at the cio and i think the focus of this is our of his approach is basically on china and he's looking for a trade deal with china that will suit the us and he doesn't want the job he owes any kind of destruction to the us but also the rules of the w t o have been set up when china still was an emerging power an emerging economy now it's the 2nd biggest economy in the world do the u.s. have a point. i think there is a sense that that china has been having it all its own way for too long and certainly us what the u.s. would argue and they've been saying to us and china has been ab

china expert clifford coonan from business joins me in the studio now high cliff it is chinese investment a blessing or a curse from want to make well i think it's a blessing and a curse in this case i mean clearly montenegro needs the infrastructure it's a small country that's trying to fight its way and to. raise its status within europe at the same time it is a curse and like any loan it's got a risk elements where if they can't pay back the land montenegrin line could become collateral so it works in both ways why is china so generous china's generous because china's trying to build influence it's looking for for china sitting on quite a lot of cash that it needs to invest. and so the silk road is very much part of the us i think so it's trying to build up infrastructure as part of the silk road but it is also trying to build political influence i was interesting in the report we had that china basically came to the rescue with the e.u. just didn't manage to invest the money and a lot of experts say the 2020 will be a critical year for china relations how come well i think we've got t

oh yeah this could be a battle beginning clifford coonan for me to be a business joins me now clifford in the interview with the chairman of who or what he says that without a lawful request the company would not engage in spawning did he say what would happen if china makes what deems to be a wall for requests to the company well this is it i mean it's a gray area about what what is a lawful request i mean there are there are rules in place which would require a way to report if the government or the communist party which is the same thing required we've had the case of the 2 canadians who were detained a year ago after. chief financial officer of mom one joe was detained in there and that's writing on it and she's under house arrest there they've been. under arrest in china for a year they haven't seen a lawyer if that kind of thing can happen basically the law is kind of whatever the commas party says it is so they haven't seen the lawyer but these in canada she has had access to her lawyers right she's under house arrest she's she's living quite well she's living quite well what sh