Reva Goujon, director of Rhodium Group, discusses what might be on the agenda ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Beijing and says “expectations are low.”
Marcel Thieliant, head of Asia-Pacific at Capital Economics, says the worst is yet to come and he still expects that the U.S. will enter a recession later this year and growth in Europe will remain “extremely weak.”
Philipp Rosler, secretary general of Global Neighbours and former vice chancellor of Germany, says the China policy of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition lacks a “clear positioning.”
Marcos Troyjo, transformational leadership fellow at the University of Oxford and former deputy economy minister of Brazil, says China will have more of an “epicentric” role.
Richard Rossow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says U.S. companies control most of that technology, not the Department of Defense, and those companies will have to be willing to part with sensitive intellectual property and defense equipment “in a way that builds their own standing … [without] giving away the crown jewels.
Ed Morse from Citi discusses the outcome of the OPEC+ meeting and what he sees as ‘disappointing’ oil demand from the world’s largest consumption markets.
Sweden Defense Minister Pål Jonson tells CNBC’s Sri Jegarajah that the country is well placed to become a security provider to the NATO military alliance.
Cynthia Rudin of Duke University says it’s not just artificial intelligence text generation that could lead to “massive privacy violations,” but also biometric technologies like facial recognition.