premier league kick young blames the united states for slowing growth around half of all his country's exports to the us have now been slapped with tariffs. china is the largest economy on the continent growth there is now hovering around six percent that's lower than at any point since one thousand nine hundred ninety and it's having effect all over asia. continent wide growth slowed to six percent and twenty seventeen but last year it hit the skids even harder than its forecast for twenty nineteen the asian development bank predicts growth numbers will continue to drop it expects the trend to continue until at least twenty twenty . and asia is facing a range of other risks as well including potentially serious disasters caused by climate change like the record breaking flooding that hit the southern indian city of corolla last year it killed hundreds of people and destroyed the homes of over two hundred thousand more in its report the development bank also warned that these