that's good news for more let's cross over to linda hong asian market correspondent with joins us in singapore linda we hear that donald trump wants to move forward with tariffs on another two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports to the u.s. how is that going down with investors in the region. well you see this. machine of china seems to be losing steam as far as we know the stuff index of purchasing managers index has fallen below fifty and that means is a contraction and then is actually not good and this is also that the export or this has actually been shrinking so this is actually this is the first time that china has had the silly month export downturn in two years so some economists actually noted that the outlook for china's export performance will be gloomy in the coming months because in the patient of what with care of they have already a front load that already shipped a lot of shipments to the u.s. and that probably will be more quiet a month coming ahead and as we've seen in the store previous story so far we haven't looked at the national or the what's goin

alright let's get the asian perspective on this particular issue crossing over now to linda hong a correspondent in singapore good to have you with us linda do you know of any investors in the region that would be interested in italian debt well italian debt seems to be quite not so attractive i mean if you look at it you look at the g.d.p. to debt ratio it's a far hundred thousand debt to g.d.p. ratio it's about one hundred thirty percent and that means that it's very hard based on economic growth of one point five percent last year and projected again the same this year that it will be able to service its debt and so it attractiveness may not be that appealing to asian investors which is seeing quite a bit of growth as compared to the european bonds economy that's already maturing talking of growth i mean there's a lot of money around certainly since today with hong kong stocks seeing their biggest one day gain in six months what's triggered to that a jump. well those central banks in the old days it would like the market more stable in the face of a stronger u.s. dollars and the ongoing trade

the professor africa and asia stand to lose out most let's rope in alice singapore correspondent linda hong what's the agricultural impact on asia right now. well then you see in asia you can actually there are a lot of developing nations and you don't really have a lot of money to develop infrastructure into and that's actually one of the problems that the farmers might be facing but take note that this is actually not the first time that farmers in asia have actually faced such a dry problem in twenty sixteen weather wasn't so great identity there's actually been the food crisis worldwide so to counter this problem for instance in asia vietnam and indonesia they actually have. subscription services for farmers at less than one dollar u.s. a month you can actually get information on climate and as well as food prices and also there's also been quite a bit of financial incentives putting money into. incentives to actually create more of us as well as to counter this with artificial conditions such as sunlight and humidity ben linda what about my home country australia where some regions hav