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exposed cliff coonan if the new u.s. legislation would make phase one trade deal less likely i think it probably does we've seen how it's the angry reaction you know naked act of hedge germany and they're very very angry about this pretty strong words yeah yeah so certainly from the verbal on the verbal side they're very very angry but it's just a question of how that actually translates into things though i mean there's a lot of pragmatism at work here too and the politics is very important to the chinese government and the often bhopal it will trump economics so it's basically. going to be their focus to get in the way. and also some of the other global business stories making headlines today europe's top food and beverage companies are calling up on regulators in brussels to make the production of electric trucks mandatory for comic. so that the companies have a better chance to meet climate goals the alliance includes nestle and unilever and they say the car industry needs more incentive to begin producing electric t

so let's talk about how this might well play out with a double journalist clifford coonan who spent 15 years covering china and chinese politics welcome to this place let's start with a fact this human rights and democracy act what will be its effect how it works well i think the primary effect seems to have been to make china very angry indeed but in technical terms what it will do is it requires washington to keep an eye on hong kong which has special status since the handover in 1907 and to see how do move towards democracy in hong kong is continuing and how hong kong special freezer . or being protective and if hong kong doesn't seem to be doing that. then they can review hong kong special status where it would just become like another chinese city all right so it's no it's so it's not as though the u.s. is sort of swooping in and saying what solace it was hong kong was already enjoying some sort of favorable treatment from the u.s. and this is the u.s. saying well you know we can give all we can take it away that's right yeah it's quite symbolic in a way because it's got this mass

clifford coonan from d.w. business can tell us more a cliff this i.p.o. has been in the works postpone restarted for 3 years now why so many problems well they faced a lot of headwinds they've had overall economic worries we've had to trade war between the u.s. and china and also the u.s. has been ramping up its own oil production and then we had to drone attack in september which also really had made people very jittery and one of the regime's companies actually downgraded us so. to this the fact that saudi's reputation has taken a hit with things like the fascination of jamal khashoggi at the embassy in istanbul that's geopolitically this isn't helpful and yes they faced all these sort of things but i think looking at work now it's because well it's an incredibly profitable company it's you know it made $70000000000.00 in the 1st 9 months of this year and if the valuation works i mean if they can push it to the valuation that prince mohammed bin sound not wants it will be worth as much as apple and microsoft put together so it's in some ways it's a good