john liu on solutions frfrom china, ethiopia and r rw. coming up onon "earth focus." [drumming] >> this isis china's loess plateau. until recently, this was one of the poorest regions in the coununtry. a land renowned for floods, mudslides and famine. but with the fanfare comes the hope of change for the better. my name is john d. liu. i've been documenting the changes on the plateau for 15 years. i first came here in 1995 to film an ambitious project where local people were constructing a new lalandscape on a vast sca. transforming a barren land into a green and fertile one. the prroject certainly changed my life, convincing me to become a soil scientist. the lessons i've learned in the last few years have made me realize ththat many of the human trageds that we regularly witness around the world, the floods, mudslides, droughts and famines, are not inevitable. here on the loessss plateau i've witnessed that people can lift themselves out of poverty. they can radically improve their environment. and by doing so, reduce the threat of climate change. >> [singing] >> wh

john liu on solutions frfrom china, ethiopia and r rw. coming up onon "earth focus."umming] >> this isis china's loess plateau. until recently, this was one of the poorest regions in the coununtry. a land renowned for floods, mudslides and famine. but with the fanfare comes the hope of change for the better.

bloomberg's executive editor for greater china, john liu. patrick armstrong is still with us. get some kind of trade deal, you were saying it will be a little bit of a dodge. patrick: i think so. that is what we have had with nafta and iran. you get something that the white house can come out and say we got a deal, it is the best deal ever, but there is nothing much of substance. i think the core issues are almost unresolvable in the short-term. getting deals to fix the current account deficit. get china to say we are going to commit to this many soybeans, more oil imports, natural gas, things like that, we will get something like that, but i don't think it will get to the real crux. underlying tensions will continue, but the overhang of the market may lessen on the deal that will come. francine: i'm also looking at china industrial profits dropping for the first time since 2015. does that make you worry about the strength of the economy? patrick: it makes me worried about profit margins and i think that is what investors who are worried about equities have to worry about. the