Hello and welcome to Business Matters here on the BBC World Service.
Now sometimes we decide to devote the whole programme to a specific issue.
That's often
because it is an issue that's dominating not just the business headlines but the news headlines as well.
And we're doing that today because Donald Trump,
it's now 100 days since he took over the presidency so we're going to be looking...
at some of the economic policies that he's put in place and the impact that's had,
not just on the US economy, but the global economy as well.
As always, to guide us through that, we have two guests on opposite sides of the world.
Rebecca Chung-Wilkin, Senior Asia Correspondent for Bloomberg, who of course is there in Hong Kong.
Rachel, 100 days of Donald Trump has kept many people busy.
I'm sure you as well.
Just give us your initial thoughts.
from the part of the world that you're in of what this 100 days has meant.
Well,
I think it's really been a story about tariffs and uncertainty over precisely where we're going to end up.
Of course,
we had that toe for toe match ratcheting up from tariffs up to and all the way above 145 percent.
So really, the discussion, I think, in this part of the world has been, do we come down from here?
Where do we end up?