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There is a ferocious competitiveenvironment

and that is why many of the foreigncompanies did not strive to compete

but that said…

they would say they haven’t got any access

I mean a lot of them don't have any access,it's just a fact

that’s only true: Facebook and Google

that's right, information related

eBay competed with Alibaba

Amazon is still there but they're allcompeted by JD

But that I have to say that landscape isshifting as well

because of the new sector the Interneteconomy

there's just much more level playingfields, much more competition

it might not have been the same kind ofenvironment in the past

when we're talking about automobilemanufacturing competition

Malcolm what do you think…I want to go backto Martin's point about the blocked transition

do you think there's a sense in the Westthat they're kind of looking at China thinking

well, you know the carrots are not lookingthat great anymore

so maybe we'll treat them as an enemy now

because we can wield a stick, becausethere's nothing to gain

I…think part of the Trump administration'sattitude to Chinese trade

and indeed the view of people in the numberof other Western countries is sour grapes

I mean the Chinese happen to have been verysuccessful exporters

that's not a unique Asian phenomenon

we have went through exactly the same withJapan in the 1950s

and with South Korea and other Asiancountries

they've shown themselves to be able toproduce the goods

that we are consumers freely choose to buy

because of quality, because of price andall the another…other market considerations

so that aspect of it is sour grapes

and I don’t go along with the Trumprhetoric or the Trump analysis

However and there’s a huge However

because what China has done so far and in asense you almost acknowledged it

if I may say so, is that they've taken thebenefits of the global economy

without this one you, yourself said it'snow time to give something back

and by saying that you were acknowledgingthat

that's what they have not been doing uptill now

and what they have refused to do

in any real sense apart from rhetoric

is to allow Western companies but not justWestern companies

other Asian companies as well

to have the same access to penetratingChinese markets

as they expect to have when they proudly goto Davos

and say we believe in globalization and weare now the champions of globalization

now that Washington has given that up

at this moment in time I hope that willchange

but at this moment in time, the ability notjust of American companies

but companies from any country other thanChina

to actually get into the Chinese market andcompete with Chinese companies

is severely restricted not just because ofconsumer choice in China

but because the Chinese government wantedthat way

and how you do you agree with that?

in fact when China joined the WTO, the…

one of the conditions were to have certainsectors be open up to foreign competition

and foreign companies wanted to come in forthe Chinese market

and some even voluntarily traded in some oftheir key technologies

now that said those are not the bestcompanies in the world

because they wanted the Chinese market

so that's…inaccurate to say that there wasno foreign access whatsoever

there were certain sectors

Now today, financial sectors is beingliberalized

and they're inviting the foreigninstitutions to come in

which will be good for China as well

because we need competition to fix thefinancial system problems

those kind of regulations, those kind ofrelaxation of rules have already happened

it's already been completed, So we'reseeing that

you know, Tesla is the first foreign whollyowned car company in China

and so we're hoping to see more change

which is puzzling them the quest…the kindof language out of Washington DC

the trade war language, because if thingswere changing fundamentally

why would the corporate lobby in the US notbe fighting Trump every step of the way

and saying, look the doors open

we don't have a problem here, we're happywe're getting the business that we need

In fairness, The trade war has acceleratedthe opening up of China

which includes not only financial servicesbut also lowering tariffs

so that Chinese can import more from abroad

now this is a very important event

that China recorded the first currentaccount deficit in decades

it's going to import more than it exports

and it will serve as a great source ofaggregate demand

but it's Trump that… the trade war canalmost be said as…

thought of as a strategic gift

because it's pushing for greater reforms, domesticreforms as well as more opening up

and it's actually consistent with a long-termeconomic goals of China

Okay, Martin, Can I just say does that turnyour argument on its head that…