Big fan of the China Talk podcast, not least now having recorded an episode on India with the great @MohanCRaja, chaired as ever with huge enthusiasm by pod maestro @jordanschnyc. On a streaming platform near you soon, one imagines. 🇮🇳🇨🇳👊. podcasts.apple.com/gb/pod…

Interesting from @DavidLammy in @ForeignAffairs , fleshing out his "progressive realism" vision for Labour foreign policy. The "realism" bit seems right to me. Far more complex global environment than 1997. The main idea in the quote below..... www.foreignaffairs.com/un….

Critical mineral supply-chain de-risking, not so much. Striking chart from @business. "What’s becoming clearer, though, is the European Union and China risk slow-walking into a trade war as Beijing resists requests to open up its economy, triggering .. defense measures. "

Just back from 🇨🇳 to discover waiting for me a preview copy of what I'm convinced will the most important book on 🇮🇳 for many years: "The New India", by the formidably talented @rahulabhatia. Everything Rahul does is top class. Looking forward to reading very much 📚👊

From the excellent @noahbarkin on linkedin. I'm bemused by this. After 2 weeks in China I'm pretty much convinced the mainstream European car industry is likely to be killed off by Chinese EV competition. maybe even the premium end too. probably isn't much we can do. Devastating.