China 'Shocked' by US Trade Actions

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Beijing describes Washington's latest tariff threat on $200bn of goods as "unacceptable". Geoffrey Yu is an investment strategist at UBS Wealth Management, and tells us what China's next move is likely to be. Also in the programme, we hear about an extraordinary food scandal in Kolkata, India. President Trump has reiterated his call for NATO members to increase their defence spending to an agreed 2% of economic activity. Dr Heidi Hardt is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, and explains how much the argument is dominating the ongoing NATO summit in Brussels. The next stop for the US president, tomorrow, will be the UK. Our regular economic commentator, Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute, tells us what Mr Trump hopes to achieve from the visit. Plus, the BBC's Tom Davies reports on how workers can avoid getting distracted by the football World Cup. (Picture: A Chinese textile worker. Picture credit: Getty Images.)