duncan clark, thank you very much bejoining us from beijing.ecause asian markets have been given a boost by the news president xijinping has had a telephone conversation with president trump — raising hopes of a thawing in trade tensions between the world's biggest economies. 0ur asia business correspondent karishma vaswani has been looking into this for us. is this enough, just a telephone conversation, to send markets soaring? it would seem so, victoria, and these days, if you want to get some information for the direction of the relationship between the united states and china, then—president trump's twitter feed is where to go. in a tweet, that is how we found out. the us president said he had a very long and good conversation. he also said the conversation. he also said the conversation had a very heavy emphasis. those discussions are moving along nicely. at the 620 summit in argentina later this month. that is the big question, whether or not these two leaders will sit down, have a conversation about what to do, will beijing accommodate s

duncan clark has written books about aliba ba.igger and bigger, but eventually it is not possible to double and 27% is not bad, and there are still surging, burgeoning middle class in china, so this is politically and commercially a big push to bring in high—quality products for this middle—class. there's a question over far that can go. early in the week there was not high representation from the us, but for this event the number two country coming in with products was the us, behind japan, and so consumers, once they have the choice, will buy whatever they want, although tariffs could kick in. but generally we see a strong consumer appetite for better products, especially things like milk for miller and supplements around health. the chinese will pay extra for those products —— especially things like milk formula. we finish with a lovely video. a 101 year old french woman was understandably excited to meet president macron at the weekend. but there was a slight case of mistaken identity — the woman was convinced angela merkel wa