Washington bureau chief Robert Delaney and political economy editor Zhou Xin analyse the context of next week's planned signing of the phase one trade deal; how China avoids being drawn into Trump's brand of reality-TV politics; the US Senators aiming to scale up their anti-China legislation after the phase one trade deal is signed; the grim reality of a 'phase two' trade deal and Cissy Zhou reports from Taiwan on how the elections are being influenced by the US-China trade war.