This Davos was taking place when the world economy had just been hit by huge shocks, right? The invasion of Ukraine, obviously the energy price shock, high inflation. But actually there is I think among the business people, there's a surprising sense of optimism that maybe Europe can dodge a recession and particularly because of China's opening. So those are the kind of emergent themes, but what's formerly on the agenda? What are people actually here to talk about?
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