All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening between the United States and China

with the tariff and trade negotiations, the deals that the talks that allegedly they're having.

Things appear to have calmed down from where they were, say, three, four weeks ago.

But now it looks like things are, and it appeared that there was some sort of an understanding

between China and the United States with the tariffs.

We went from 145 percent to 50% or 40%.

I forgot the numbers that both sides agreed towards two, agreed to.

And now it seems as if things are deteriorating again between both sides.

What's going on?

Well, this is a very strange business because we're told that

there's been negotiations between China and the United States. Trump is unhappy about the way

in which the Chinese are digging in over the course of these negotiations. And we're also

told that the Chinese have in some way, which is not clear to me, violated some of the understandings that

Scott Bessent reached with the Chinese in Switzerland, in Geneva. The trouble is, I don't know

where these negotiations are supposed to be happening. I mean, I've not seen big negotiating teams

meeting in public talking about these things.

I have no doubt there are contacts, but it doesn't seem to me as if there's any real push

to try and negotiate anything at all.

And I think, again, that some of the people who were advising Trump, perhaps let him to think that the Chinese were

interested in negotiations and that they would come round and would start negotiations for

the kind of economic divorce that he clearly anchors for.

And I think again, he's probably surprised and disappointed that

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