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Who is winning Trump's trade wars?

Can China find a way to exploit its vast but hard to frack shale reserves?

These are the questions we'll be delving into on this week's views room, a weekly conversation among breaking views columnists about the ups and downs of the

world of finance. I'm Anthony Curry and my co-host is Jennifer Saber. Hi, Jen. Hello.

So we'll be handing over to our colleagues in Asia later in the show to discuss China's

shale reserves. We start, though, by examining the many recent

movements on the Tariff's battlefield. And joining us from Washington is our columnist there,

Gina Chon, to sort out the mess for us. Gina, welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me.

So, you know, you've come back from maternity leave a few weeks ago, straight into the mess,

what is Donald Trump's trade wars, which of course are easy to win.

So is he feeling victorious?

Well, he says he is, although he's also very angry at various countries and companies that have reacted to his trade moves, although none of them should actually have been a surprise.

So it was actually a pretty confusing week, given all the back and forth.

We had people like Stephen Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, trying to sort of tone down some of the

anti-China rhetoric saying these

investment restrictions that the administration was looking at would target all countries that

are trying to steal technology from the U.S. instead of just China.

You had a White House trade advisor Peter Navarro just hours after that actually say that China was the

target and no other countries would be in the mix beyond that front. And then there was talk

about even an executive order to that effect at one point. Exactly. Yeah, that would would have just

specifically fell onto China and basically block any company that

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