china's financial capital shanghai trade representative robert litan eyes are on treasury secretary stephen nugent are due to spend the next 2 days around a table with chinese vice premier her trying to find a deal the 2 sides however are as far apart as ever the u.s. is pushing for an end to unfair practices as donald trump likes to describe china's economic policies these policies include billions of subsidies which keep chinese prices artificially low for its part china wants a deal where both sides make concessions. so far the u.s. has imposed customs duties on chinese goods valued at $250000000000.00 china has responded with tariffs on $110000000000.00 worth of goods and all $360000000000.00 worth of merchandise is affected by the trade dispute. to avoid further escalation trump and chinese president xi jinping agreed to a form of cease fire at the osaka g 20 in june however heading into this round of talks there is little sign of agreement from either side. we spoke to china expert richard mcgregor and i asked him how likely it is that china will back down. i think they're settling in now fo