trade representative robert light ties are in treasury secretary stephen minucci and got down to business with chinese vice premier her. there was little expectation of an agreement being respect for hand and the likelihood of that probably wasn't helped by the coinciding harsh criticism of china's economic policies by president trump one of his complaints the china makes promises but fails to follow through and beijing wasted no time in responding and which aren't even sure will mean i think it's meaningless for the u.s. to pursue these maximum pressure tactics when someone is ill it's useless to ask someone else to take the medicine believe the us should show more sincerity in good faith when it comes to trade negotiations. the 2 sides positions appear to be hardening the white house is already impose tariffs on half of chinese imports and has threatened to go further china has hit back with its own tariffs the result levies on 300 $60000000000.00 into a trade hitting the economies of both parties. anyone who had hopes that the 2 sides who come together on wednesday was left disappointe

7 so all optimism a void for for the negotiations has actually where and from that i neve and stephen minucci in this treasury secretary he has been not able to confirm whether that september meeting is going to happen on nod though he does say that a chinese delegation is expected in washington sometime in the future and i should suspend in frankfurt thank you so much. i was staying in china for a while because maybe you've heard of china's social credit system that's the massive into networks a balance system that will score every residence here instance norms from proper trash disposal to crossing the street on green it's scheduled for full implementation about a year from now but you also know that businesses will be evaluated too including foreign ones and many on trade. a traffic light with facial recognition cross on red face of public shaming and loose social credit points in some chinese cities it's already a reality even those who sort their trash incorrectly have to reckon with point deductions in some places as well as the penalties for low scores like losing the right to ride the