Eugene Tan, associate professor of law at Singapore Management University, discusses the issues that incoming Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will have to address. Wong will be sworn in on Wednesday.
Max Hess, fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Julian Kettle, vice chair of metals and mining and senior vice president at Wood Mackenzie, says steel remains the biggest challenge in “greening” the metals and mining industry. He adds that “we are way behind target” when it comes to the delivery of metals for the energy transition.
Thomas Zhu, head of digital assets at ChinaAMC, says the move will allow “different bitcoin miners and long-term bitcoin holders to participate in the ETF market.”
Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon professor of government at Harvard University and former assistant secretary of defense for policy and plans under the first Clinton administration, discusses U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to China and says “we’re in a period of fairly intense conversations between the parties, and the relationship is becoming slightly more stable, even though fundamentally it remains a struggle between competition on the one hand and cooperation on the other.”
Thirteen states will be heading to the polls on Thursday. CNBC’s Sri Jegarajah speaks to voters in one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s heartlands. Some of them, particularly younger, first-time voters, raised concerns about unemployment, corruption and the environment.
Fabian Brandt, global head of automotive at Oliver Wyman, discusses the “brutal” price war in the electrical vehicle market and how Chinese players compare with their Western counterparts.
Frederic Neumann, HSBC’s chief Asia economist, discusses the outlook for yen intervention, and says “the weak yen plays a functional role in Japan’s reflation — the Japanese don’t want necessarily a much stronger yen, so long as the depreciation is orderly.”
