Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

As Islamic State loses its grip in the Middle East, foreign fighters who came to join the

Caliphate want to go home. Governments around the world face a troubling choice about weather

and how to re-admit their radicalized citizens.

And some people see wine as more than just a drink. They see an investment.

For years that usually meant wines from Bordeaux. But that's changing. A rising fermented

favorite is Burgundy and buyers are intoxicated by it.

But first, there's more hope that a costly trade war between China and America may be coming to an end.

This weekend there were talks between America's trade representative Robert Leigh Heiser

and the Chinese vice premier Liu He. Things went well enough that President Donald Trump

delayed America's next campaign in the trade war. A big boost to tariffs on Chinese goods that

had been scheduled for this coming Friday. That sent Chinese stocks on a tear earlier today.

China's currency hit a seven-month high. But the tit for tat tariffs, the countries have been

imposing on each other for more than a year, have already had serious effects. How hard will it be

to heal the wounds inflicted so far? A single commodity provides clues.

So I've been to really been at the heart of this trade war. So it means a loan were around

9% of total American exports to China in 2017.

Simea Keynes is our US economics correspondent. I went to visit Tim Bordeaux, who runs this family farm

near RIPI in central Iowa. Hi. Nice to meet you. Hello. I'm Tim. Nice to meet you. Hi.

There was quite a lot of snow and not much farming going on. But it did mean that I got to see

all the massive equipment that they were storing in their barn. Wow. That is a large tractor.

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