Introduction

The asia chessboard podcast examines geo political dynamics in asia and takes an inside look at the making of grand strategy. This is an episode 61, and were joined by my friend wendy cutler, who is one of the leading veterans of trade negotiations in the into pacific. And we're going to talk about, i pet, trade, trade politics and the role of economic state craft in grant strategy in the inter pacific when. President bides economic strategy towards the indo pacific. We also discuss prospects for a digital trade agreement in china's bid to join c p.