a chronic tariff situation going into 2019 which would suppress economic activity. the chinese need to understand, may be beginning to understand that there is a consensus that the chinese predatory mai maif your is beham and it s not going to go away. that s precisely the point. one of the things that will help is inside china xi has rod s roo nationalism is not popular. and there are reformers that refer the way china was going when it joined the wto. they ll also pressure him. when we come back, the arrest of a chinese tech executive threatens to throw u.s.-china relations further into turmoil. gordagordan chang on