they know novarro has the president's ear.s probably the most influential voice in the white house when it comes to trade and navarro has a lot of problems with the way china handles its, he talks about, and i quote, a list of unfair trade practices longer than my sleeve, cyber intrusions into our business network to steal trade secrets, forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, weaponized overcapacity and related dumping in industries ranging from basic commodities to advanced technology the march across the globe of heavily subsidized state-owned enterprises and a chronically undervalued currency that's a huge litany of hard to change practices, and it's why i think it's going to be very tough to make a deal what do we have balanced against that just some endlessly from the treasury department. that's not how navarro makes it sound. the chinese pmi was very robust which calls into question just how badly china's going to need to do this deal. the president has talked about leaving on the tariffs even after we