there are positive signs china's chief trade negotiator leo hood will head to washington after all there were worries he might not go but for now uncertainties about the direction of trade talks are upsetting investors across asia and damaging sentiment in markets already nervous now with in the studio to shed some light on the background here is the china expert clifford coonan and often of course is also standing by in frankfurt the cliff let's start with you it's hardly an accident happened so soon after the strong job state of from the us is this just trump's tactics it's definitely goes in tactic he felt emboldened by the strength of the jobless figures in particular but it's also a bit of negotiation going on the chinese side too they're not prepared to just lie down we're hearing i'm hearing from my sources there that that she jinping wanted. some of the concessions that the negotiation team was making he very much wants to put his imprint on the trade deal that comes out too so i think we're at that stage in trade talks where negotiations they can kind of see the finishing line b

what we hear is that the chinese delegation will come, led by leo hood, the top economic official forys of talks. there was a lot of doubt about that which sent markets dropping quite a bit, because the reports had been coming out before then, was that the chinese may not go to washington because the u.s. side felt that the chinese were backtracking on two major types of negotiations in the trade war. one is structure reforms to stop subsidizing state owned enterprises and the other one is an enforcement mechanism that any trade talks need to be enforced. it looks like they're going to be talking. >> the documentary we were just talking about interviewed steve bannon. steve bannon has written an op ed in which he lays out this is a war for economic dominance of the world. he lays out the fact that china is the single greatest threat to the united states and that we shouldn't think of it in an accommodative way, we have to get more than a little deal. america has to prevail over china, what's your sense that have argument? >> well, i think that's going to be an argument that's not goin