"We were shocked and I was angry," Mr Hall said.

Beijing is still fumbling with the keys because. But with a range of incentives, from subsidies for household appliances to

for travelling retirees, that could change.And Trump's tariffs have given the Chinese Communist Party an even stronger impetus to unlock the country's consumer potential.The leadership may "very well be willing to endure the pain to avoid capitulating to what they believe is US aggression", Mary Lovely, a US-China trade expert at the Peterson Institute in Washington DC, told BBC Newshour earlier this month.

China also has a higher threshold for pain as an authoritarian regime, as it is far less worried about short-term public opinion. There is no election around the corner that will judge its leaders.Still, unrest is a concern, especially because there is already discontent over an ongoing property crisis and job losses.

The economic uncertainty over tariffs is yet another blow for young people who have only ever known a rising China.

The Party has been appealing to nationalist sentiments to justify its retaliatory tariffs, with state media calling on people to "weather storms together".Clean water campaigners Surfers Against Sewage said the fines were a win for campaigners, who had been “demanding those in power enforce the letter of the law”.

Chief executive Giles Bristow said: “Today’s fines illustrate the sheer state of disrepair of our broken water industry with nearly half of Yorkshire Waters storm overflows found to be in breach of their permits.“People demand healthy rivers, lakes and seas and the government must ensure they, and the water sector, delivers it.”

It's a bright spring morning in Hanover, Germany, and I'm on my way to meet a robot.I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot built by Chinese firm, Unitree, at the Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade shows.