go into place, and the economic data out of the u.s., let's bring in michelle girard, economist at natwest markets. she joins us from stamford, connecticut. if there was to be outflows out of china mandated by the trump administration -- and it is still speculation -- what would that look like in the treasury and equity markets? michelle: clearly, you can see the markets will react negatively in a short-term basis to any impediment to capital .lows in the treasury market, there would certainly be risk of some kind of reciprocity where perhaps we would see china buying less or selling treasury securities. those kinds of concerns certainly would be front and center. back, what allg of this reminds is, the trade war and the conflict with china is not going to go away. there is a lot of optimism about negotiations between the u.s. and china in coming weeks, a lot of speculation that we will see some kind of trade truce, and that the president is highly motivated ahead of the elections to come up with a deal. what this is a reminder of, this is a far bigger conflict, as you just said. , andfrom