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In this CGTN special - China Agenda – Juliet Mann and her guests consider the outcomes of this year's Two Sessions gatherings and what it all means for China, and the rest of the world.
Further modernisation, innovation driven development and further opening up were all key themes at the gatherings, but what will this all look like in practice?
Juliet is joined by Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organisation, Bert Hofman, Professor at the East Asian Institute of the National University Singapore and former China Director for the World Bank, Turing Prize winner and Emeritus Research Director at the VERIMAG Laboratory, Joseph Sifakis, Rebecca Fannin, entrepreneur and author of "Tech Titans of China" and Shaoshan Liu, Director of Embodied AI, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society.
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The results of Germany's snap election are in, and Friedrich Merz is set to be the country's next leader after his Christian Democratic Union took 28% of the vote.
But with the far-right AFD taking a strong second place, Europe's largest economy faltering and rows between the EU and the US only growing, how big a task is he facing?Joining Juliet Mann on this episode of The Agenda are Heiner Flassbeck, honorary professor for economics and politics at Hamburg University and former state secretary in the German Federal Ministry of Finance, Eberhard Sandschneider, Director of the Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy and Ariadna Ripoll Servent, Professor of Politics at the University of Salzburg.
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For decades, the relationship between the United States and Europe has been characterised as a transatlantic alliance with shared values on the likes of foreign policy and security.
But after a week of diplomatic shocks, including the Trump administration excluding Kyiv and Brussels from talks to end the Ukraine war, do the US and Europe still speak the same language?
On this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann is joined by Erol Morkoc, Spokersperson for Republicans Overseas UK, Denis Macshane, the UK’s Former Minister for Europe and Waya Quiviger, a Professor at the IE School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs at IE University in Spain. -
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At the end of last year, DeepSeek was a little-known Chinese Artificial Intelligence startup.
But by the end of last month it was the most talked about company in the world, whose revolutionary approach to open-sourced generative AI had rocked global markets, wiping more than a trillion dollars off tech and energy stocks, and seemingly leveling the global AI playing field. But what do the shockwaves caused by DeepSeek mean for the future of AI, and indeed the future of global geopolitics?
In this episode of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Toby Walsh, Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Dr Brian Wong, Geopolitical strategist and Tech Advisor from Hong Kong University and Michael Michie co-founder of Kenyan start-up EverseTech to find out.
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The United Kingdom starts 2025 in something of a financial mess.
Inflation and interest rates remain stubbornly high, and the Labour government, which swept to power in a landslide victory in July of last year, has seen support tumble after its first budget contained tax hikes and spending cuts.
But can UK plc trade its way out of trouble? And what might new relationships, with the US, the EU and China really look like?
On this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann is joined by Allie Renison, Associate Director at SEC Newgate and former Policy Advisor to the UK Trade Secretary, Dr. Gerard Lyons, Economist and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies and Alan Winters, Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex and Founding Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory to find out. -
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2024 will go down as the biggest election year in history - wth more than 2 billion people casting ballots across the globe.
The year also saw inflation and interest rates easing across much of the world, even while geopolitcal tensions remained high.
So what might 2025 have in store?
Joining Juliet Mann to consider just that on this episode of The Agenda are Keyu Jin, Author and Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, David J. Firestein, president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations, and Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. -
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China and the EU ended 2024 in something of a tricky situation as the row over electric vehicle tariffs threatens to undo much of the good will built up by Xi Jinping’s summer trip to Europe, and visits to Beijing by a number of EU leaders over the past 12 months.
So with the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties coming up in May of 2025 just where do relations stand between two of the world’s biggest trading partners?
To find out, on this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to John Alistair Clarke, Former Director for International Affairs at the EU Commission & former head of the EU delegation to the WTO and UN, Yin Zhiguang, Professor of international politics at Fudan University and Finnish MP and former minister of Transport, Timo Harakka.
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The curtain has now come down on the COP29 climate summit in Baku. And while a trillion dollar deal for climate financing was done at the last minute, some campaigners have called it a betrayal - as much of that figure will have to come from private financing or new sources which have yet to be agreed.
To consider where the meeting really leaves us, and our planet, on this edition of The Agenda podcast, Juliet Mann speaks to Jeremy Rifkin, Author of many books including "Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe", Christine Loh, Chief Development Strategist at Institute for the Environment at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Jacopo Bencini from the Florence School of Transnational Governance and Michael Wilkins, Executive Director and Professor of Practice at the Centre For Climate Finance And Investment at Imperial College London. -
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In 1944 delegates from 44 countries gathered in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in the United States to agree on a system of economic order and global cooperation. Eighty years later, the seeds sown there for the likes of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank still dominate the world.
But with the rise of countries like China and the rest of the global south, many think it's time for a substantial rethink of those Bretton Woods institutions, especially in the wake of the recent meetings of APEC, G20 and COP29.In this special edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann gets the opinions of Professor Marc Uzan, Executive Director and Founder of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee.
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As world leaders cross the planet to attend the APEC meeting in Peru, the G20 Summit in Rio and COP29 in Aerbaijan, the voice of the global south has never been more vital.
At all of these gatherings, developing nations are fighting to get their voices heard, and pushing to create new forms of global governance that can change the way the world is run. We’ve heard a lot of talk in the past weeks, but what does the rise of the global south really look like in practice?
Joining Juliet Mann on this episode of The Agenda are Erik Solheim, Former Under-Secretary General of the UN and former head of the UN Environment Programme, Alicia García-Herrero - Senior fellow at Bruegel and Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis, and Yin Zhiguang, Professor of International Politics at Fudan University.
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The votes have been counted and Donald Trump has been returned to the White House for a second term.
Voters in the US said the key issue for them was the economy – and whether they felt better off after four years of President Biden. But what does Trump’s re-election mean for the rest of the world? For relations with China, the EU and the rising global south? And for the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East?
Joining Juliet Mann on this edition of The Agenda to look at the US result from a more global perspective are Yawei Liu - Senior Advisor on China at The Carter Center and an adjunct Professor of political science at Emory University, Henrik Stålhane Hiim - Head of The Centre for International Security, and Michael O'Hanlon - Senior Fellow and Director of Research of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution.
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World leaders, CEOs and Climate experts are now heading to Baku for the annual United Nations Climate Change conference - COP29.
Against a backdrop of increasingly depressing news that warming gases are still accumulating faster than at any time in human history, the plan in Azerbaijan is to consider what now needs to happen next, and who will foot the bill to save the planet. Many think the gap between the global north and south, particularly over climate financing, will be the dominant issue at this COP.To look ahead to what exactly we might expect on this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann is joined by Nigar Arpadarai, UN Climate Change High-level Champion, Niklas Hagelberg, Global Coordinator for Climate Change at the UN Environmental Programme and Wu Changhua, Chair of the Governing Council of the Asia Pacific Water Forum.
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China's President Xi Jinping and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi wwere among the world leaders to join Vladimir Putin in Kazan recently for the 2024 BRICS summit. It's the first such gathering since the group added new members - Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. And, if this week's discussions are anything to go by, BRICS is only set to get bigger - with countries from across the global south pushing to join up.
So what does all this really mean for the global balance of power?
Joining Juliet Mann on this edition of The Agenda are Arkebe Oqubay - Former Senior Minister and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, and now British Academy Global Professor at SOAS in London, Egypt's former Assistant Foreign Minister, Hussein Haridy, Rashika Desai, Professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group and Michele Geraci - former undersecretary of state at the Italian Ministry of Economic development. -
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Trade tensions between China and Europe have been in the spotlight this week as the Prime Ministers of both Spain and Norway headed to China. Both Spain’s Pedro Sanchez and Norway’s Jonas Gahr Støre held high level meetings, including with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang.
So what does this tell us about the relations between China and Europe, especially with regard to the possibility of a looming trade war over electric vehicles?In this episode of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Ana Palacio – Spain’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Manuel Torres, China Partner at Garrigues, Yan Shaohua - Associate Professor for European Studies, Fudan University and Jørgen Randers, Professor Emeritus of Climate Strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School to find out.
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Esports – or competitive gaming – is the latest member of the Olympic family. Following the first ever World Cup of esports – taking place right now in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this time next year the inaugural Esports Olympics will take place in the same city.
Esports is already worth $2.4bn annually, and it’s predicted to grow by 20% a year. So what is behind that growth? How does it all work? And what do you need to do to become a world-class competitive gamer?
In this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Ralf Reichert, Chief Executive of the Esports World Cup Foundation, Mario Ho, Co-founder and Co-CEO of NIP Group, the first Chinese Esports company to list on the NASDAQ stock exchange, and Jake Trotman, competitive gamer and Assistant Lecturer in Esports business at the University of Salford
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Travel and tourism was of course one of the sectors devastated by Covid – with figures only now returning to pre-pandemic levels.
But the return to normal has not been without its challenges, with protests across Europe as locals complain about overtourism placing an unnecessary burden on local services and pricing them out of their own homes. So has the way we travel going to change forever?To find out, on this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Natalia Bayona, Executive Director of UN World Tourism, Pere Joan Femenia Spokesperson for the pressure group Menys Turisme, Mas Vida (Less Tourism, More Life), and Professor Harold Goodwin, Managing Director of the Responsible Tourism Partnership.
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For nearly two weeks, the UK witnessed the most violent social unrest in more than a decade. Triggered it seems by the far-right’s reaction to the murder of three young girls at a Taylor Swift dance class in the town of Southport, the violence spread to almost thirty towns and cities, with shops looted, hundreds arrested and hotels housing immigrants and mosques attacked.
So what does this really say about the state of the UK, a matter of weeks into Keir Starmer’s premiership? And what really is the role of online disinformation, which many are blaming for the violence?
In this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Former Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police, Dal Babu, Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and Roger Griffin, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Oxford Brookes University to find out.
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The Farnborough International Air Show is one of the world’s largest. Hundreds of thousands of people descend for the week to examine the very latest technology the aviation industry has to offer.
But this year, things were a little different, with much of the talk focused on supply chain issues and the ongoing woes of industry titan Boeing – which made a big statement by deciding not to take part in any aerial displays at this years event.
To take the true temperature of the sector, on this edition of The Agenda Juliet Mann heads to Farnborough to talk to Matteo Peraldo, Aviation Expert at AlixPartners and Sebastian Borel, Chief Commercial Officer at Lilium, a company hoping to revolutionize short-haul travel with its all electric vertical take off and landing plane.
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Reform resolution was the key message from the recent Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. More than 300 reform measures were announced, from deepening reform itself to expanding opening up, promoting high quality innovation at home to making China a first-class business environment for foreign investors.
The Third Plenum set out an expansive and inclusive plan for the future. It is, as Han Wenxiu, Executive Deputy Director of the Office of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission put it – "a significant opportunity for the world."
So, on this special programme - Shaping the Future, Juliet Mann speaks to experts from across the globe to get their take on the economic, technological and geopolitical advances envisioned at the Third Plenum. She’s joined by Alfred Schipke, Director of the East Asian Institute and Professor of the Practice of International Finance at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Markus Hermann Chen, Co-Founder and Managing Director of China Macro Group, Michele Geraci, , Visiting Professor of Finance and Economics at New York University Shanghai and Former Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, Thorsten Jelinek, senior fellow and Europe director at the Taihe Institute, Erik Baark, Professor Emeritus at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Vuk Jeremič, Former Foreign Minister of Serbia and Former President of the UN General Assembly.
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No sooner has the the Euros Football finished in Germany, than in just a few days the Paris Olympics will begin with the largest opening ceremony in history.
So with thousands of athletes and millions of spectators spending the summer in Europe - and alongside promises from both events they’ll be the most sustainable ever, this week on The Agenda, Juliet Mann looks at just how green global sport really is.
She’s joined by Marie Sallois, Corporate and Sustainable Development Director of the International Olympic Committee and Dr Martin Cames from the Öko-Institut, who was a co-author of the UEFA feasibility study into how to minimise Euro 2024’s environmental impact.
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