the communist party wants as it's grown stronger as the countries of work with it beijing has become more belligerent taking much more cream positions and engaging in conduct which is clearly much more unacceptable its trade policies for instance are becoming much more predatory much more exclusionary now you know this is just unfortunate but this is the direction china is taking and we've got to understand what the consequences and the implications of that are what do you think the immediate consequences are going to be for the united states following these indictments i mean what can china do if it wants a tit for tat reaction. you know china can do any number of things besides huff and puff but really it's not a very good position to do that because you have the chinese economy if you look at the numbers for december last month it is shown economy that probably is contracting and that is consistent with what beijing economists have been talking about including that professor from britain university who created