upcoming bilateral talks as a source of confidence. the door is open for additional negotiations. we are planning. for the chinese team to come here in september you know they are meeting. they have their. leadership on clay for about 10 days i think it's already begun you know come out of that still be ahead of the september 1 terrible line and you know we hope to accomplish or we hope we can have some very positive results in the goshi ations that's an optimistic view of the president's office said. that we're open to negotiations. now that conciliatory sounding statement comes off the back of calls from elsewhere in the white house urging the federal reserve to protect the u.s. economy from the trade war by cutting rates further our financial correspondent yes