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.

China's businesses are starting to feel the bite of the country's trade war with America.

As bilateral trade talks continue today in Washington, we visit the world's largest building

in the city of Chengdu.

Inside, there's a giant wave pool, two malls, 30,000 workers, free cats, and a glimpse

of the state of China's economy.

A few decades ago, a couple of hundred people on one tiny island were the only native speakers of Hawaiian. Now there are thousands. We look at an effort to resurrect the language

and the benefits that it has brought.

But first... Today at the Vatican, a four-day conference will begin,

addressing the issue of child abuse by the clergy.

Church leaders from around the world will be in attendance. What's important about this summit is finally the acknowledgement that this is a global problem

and it lives inside this global system and the people running that system are many of them, most of them,

are going to be over here. Peter Isley is a founding member of the activist group ending clergy abuse.

They have to deliver. They have to deliver for survivors. The conference will mark an important

turning point for Pope Francis, who's been criticized for not dealing with the growing scandal.

The conference, which involves bishops from all over the world and other leading figures in the Roman Catholic

Church was called some months back following allegations that were leveled at Pope Francis.

John Hooper, our Vatican correspondent, joins me on the line from Rome.

Part of those allegations had to do with his own record with regard

to clerical sex abuse. And as a kind of token of the seriousness with which the Vatican said it was

taking the whole issue of clerical sex abuse, this conference was called, the

idea being to really get a grip on the issue.

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