January 16, 2023 – Three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist: the destructive new logic that threatens globalisation, how Brazil should deal with the bolsonarista insurrection (11:55) and a review of Prince Harry’s autobiography (16:45).
Category Archives: Analysis
Technology: The Global Impact Of OpenAI ‘ChatGPT’
Chat GPT is the world’s most powerful AI chatbot. It offers a human-like alternative to search engines and can do everything from compile a menu to writing a TV script to explaining quantum physics. Could it also transform the jobs of hundreds of millions of people?
Opinion: China Reopens & Disrupts World, Britain-EU, Indo-Pacific Revived
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, how China’s reopening will disrupt the world economy, a realistic path to a better relationship between Britain and the EU (8:54) and reinventing the Indo-Pacific (17:35).
Preview: Foreign Policy Magazine – Winter 2023
Foreign Policy Magazine – Winter 2023 Issue:
The New Rules of War
Twelve experts on what the world needs to learn from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Biden Is Now All-In on Taking Out China
The U.S. president has committed to rapid decoupling, whatever the consequences.
Why Japan Should Join AUKUS
Tokyo has become an indispensable security actor in the Indo-Pacific.
Analysis: Apple’s Supply Chain Shifts From China To India And Vietnam (WSJ)
Wall Street Journal – Apple is facing an uphill battle as it plans to shift its production out of China. Here’s why it’s difficult to replicate Foxconn’s ‘iPhone City’ in Zhengzhou and the company’s finely-tuned ecosystem in countries like India and Vietnam.
Global Review: Five Top Stories To Watch In 2023
The Economist – From India becoming the world’s most populous country, to an illegal drug that might be approved as a medicine, The Economist offers its annual look at the year ahead.
Video timeline: 00:00 – The World Ahead 2023 00:35 – India’s population potential 04:30 – Psychedelic medicines 08:06 – Japan’s markets mayhem? 12:45 – Repairing the world 15:50 – The coronation’s colonial concerns
Foreign Affairs Magazine: The Best Articles Of 2022

Foreign Affairs (December 23, 2022) – Editors’ Top Picks from print and the web:
The Sources of Russian Misconduct

A Diplomat Defects From the Kremlin
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2022
Revenge of the Patriarchs

Why Autocrats Fear Women
MARCH/APRIL 2022
Nobody Wants the Current World Order
How All the Major Powers—Even the United States—Became Revisionists
AUGUST 3, 2022
Previews: The Economist Magazine – Dec 23-30, 2022
The Economist Magazine (December 23 – 30, 2022) issue:
Our country of the year for 2022 can only be Ukraine
For the heroism of its people, and for standing up to a bully
What 2022 meant for the world
Some years bring disorder, others a resolution. This one asked questions
Elon Musk’s $44bn education on free speech
He has had a crash course in the trade-offs in protecting free expression
Rail Transport: Chicago’s Vulnerability To Strikes
Wall Street Journal (December 19, 2022) – In recent years, the city’s railyards have seen severe bottlenecks as the supply chain choked up nationally. With $3 trillion in goods traveling through Chicago every year, the city is the busiest rail hub in the U.S. WSJ breaks down how important rail is to the region, and how vulnerable the system is to a work stoppage like a strike.
Illustration: Adele Morgan
Opinion: A Russian Attack Looms, Giving Up Growth, French Nuclear Industry
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, a looming Russian offensive, why the rich world’s politicians are giving up on growth (10:00) and can the French nuclear industry avoid meltdown? (16:25),
A looming Russian offensive
Ukraine’s chiefs, in an unprecedented series of briefings, tell The Economist about the critical months that lie ahead
Why are the rich world’s politicians giving up on economic growth?
Even when they say they want more prosperity, they act as if they don’t
The French exception
As the world turns back to nuclear power, it should heed the lessons from France