The west is increasingly nervous about becoming technologically dependent and also backward. There's a question of strategic autonomy. What do we do about chinese interference in our own societies through their influence upon university students? This is spectacularly messy. At the moment, i don't think anybody has anything like a coherent policy. Anybody that we'll work him towards it. And i certainly think that includes the british government.
2022 looks set to be another seismic year. A new Covid-19 variant threatens to prolong the pandemic. A diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics looks likely to escalate tensions with China. And time is running out to ’keep 1.5 alive’, in spite of the commitments made at COP26. Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times and widely regarded as one of the world’s most influential writers on the global economy. He joins journalist Justin Webb to set out what he sees as the major trends that will shape the world in 2022.
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