speak to a chinese economist at oxford economics. we are in expansionary territory but still quite, we are looking at perhaps quite a week set of data going to the end of the year. week set of data going to the end of the year. what does this tell us about end of the year. what does this tell us about the end of the year. what does this tell us about the broader - tell us about the broader chinese economy? it tell us about the broader chinese economy? it affirms to us we are chinese economy? it affirms to us we are family chinese economy? it affirms to us we are family on chinese economy? it affirms to us we are family on a chinese economy? it affirms to | us we are family on a bottoming out process. in this bottoming out process. in this bottoming out as always going to be volatile there will be slight ups and slight downs but chinese policymakers will look at the data from today and think this is the second month of contraction, we definitely need more stimulus
amount of coal they burned but a commitment on oil and gas use remains elusive. at the same time a meeting is also due to take those between the biggest oil producers and their allies, collectively known as opec plus of which the host, uae is a member. against that backdrop i have been speaking to david schlossberg, director of the sydney environment institute to remain sceptical about the of this year s climate talks. i think there are two clear problems. the first is the capture of the process by the fossil fuel industry and the second is the process itself. that is just the way it works. it means that petro states or countries that would captured by the fossil fuel industry can object to language and undermine real and strong changes. on the power of the fossil fuel industry, for this meeting we may be disappointed. we have the head of an oil state company setting the agenda and to me, that isjust an illustration of capture. he says it will be good to have the fossil fuel
as well as future business conditions, the country is facing an economic slump as we have been reporting and unemployment has a consumer spending as well. to understand more let s speak to a chinese economist at oxford economics. thank you forjoining us on asia business report. what is your reaction to the readings we are seeing? your reaction to the readings we are seeing? generally we are disappointed. we are seeing? generally we are disappointed, we we are seeing? generally we are disappointed, we had we are seeing? generally we are disappointed, we had expected i we are seeing? generally we are| disappointed, we had expected a contraction in this activity but not to the extent but we have to recognise these are diffusion industries more helpful in telling us the direction in which things are going stop i would say that on the manufacturing side what jumps out at us as this is effectively driven by if you look at the subcomponents this is driven by to a large extent
perfect and there was more that needed to be done but he said that every year that the conservatives were in power, they had built more houses than labour did in its previous administrations and we will have to go and fact check that but thatis have to go and fact check that but that is the claim from michael gove this morning and also, finally, on levelling up, i put to him that people from the red wall that did very well under boris johnson s people from the red wall that did very well under borisjohnson s of look for money for northern communities in particular, they would have really noticed a difference and will they really put conservative? and he said that real money had gone into these communities and more can be done but they won t need a conservative government to do that. the liberal democrats are talking about the country s roads today with a promise to invest £300 million in the next parliament to fill 1.2 million pot holes a year. the party says money from the
Dropping a war head on the white house or for that matter on anywhere else within the continental United States. He will be joining us to give us perspective on that. We are exactly two weeks out as of tonight from the u. S. Senate race in alabama where republican roy moore faces democrat doug jones. Stress appears to be getting to the Roy Moore Campaign a little bit. His staffers have taken to physically shoving news crews who are trying to cover their candidate in alabama, even when those news crews are credentialed and rsvp d for official events because they were invited to cover them. Ive also got lots of eyes tonight on Democrat John conyers where a third former staffer of his has now come forward to allege that congressman coniers sexually harassed her in the workplace. John conyers is the longest serving member of the house of representatives. Hes a Founding Member of the congressional black caucus. Hes the leading democrat on the Judiciary Committee or at least he was. He alrea