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john gong is a professor at the university of international business and economics. he joins us now from badging. john, what do you make of age things while the modest response could it's terrible, actually, do any economic damage to the us? well, our to we was your phrase that this is actually a very moderate response. i will say a mass of response only affecting less than 10 percent of the chinese export of united states. and it really doesn't have much of an impact on the us economy. oh, i think that leaves a lot of room for negotiation. actually i was hoping that that they can reach some kind of a deal just like what the canada and mexico have done before the deadline of the chinese title being king, which is february 10th. but unfortunately, all of the 3 of those kind of haven't talked yeah, a nice according to china's for administrative. and also it doesn't seems to be the case that they have reached an agreement yet. but i'm still hopeful that they can reach some kind of a compromise. i think the chinese side, i would like to have a, a kind of a deal or end goa