Hong Kong bill threatens to strain relations with China

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An article of US legislation could scupper attempts to bring an early end to the US-China trade war. The new law, the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, mandates an annual review of the territory's special trade status, and authorises sanctions against any officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses or undermining the city’s autonomy from China. Meanwhile, we talk trade wars with Lori Ann LaRocco, business journalist at CNBC and the author of a new book called Trade War: Containers Don't Lie, Navigating the Bluster. A video clip posted on the TikTok website by Feroza Aziz, a US teenager, describing how China has been putting Muslims into concentration camps has gone viral on the Chinese-owned social network. Ms Aziz tweeted that TikTok had blocked her from posting new content and she's been speaking to our New York Business Reporter, Vivienne Nunis. Plus, the BBC's Mike Johnson takes an indepth look at ransomware and its consequences. And in Saudi Arabia, there's been an explosion of activity in the world of art, with the government promising to invest more than $60 billion in cultural programmes over the next decade, as Sylvia Smith reports. We are joined throughout the programme by Mike Bird of the Wall Street Journal who is in Hong Kong. (Photo: People gather in support of pro-democracy protesters during a lunch break rally in the Kwun Tong area in Hong Kong. Credit: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)