Isabel Hilton, founder of China Dialogue, joins to discuss tariffs and all the news from Beijing. We also consider how Chinese people are using Tiktok to make light of the news, Germany’s coalition takes form and which books have been banned from the US Naval Academy’s library? Plus: Monocle’s Rory Jones speaks to UK designer Lee Broom about his collaboration with Spanish porcelain ceramicists Lladró at Salone del Mobile in Milan.

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As Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs caused chaos this week, geopolitical risk analyst and author Charles Hecker joins Georgina Godwin to unpack the US president’s push to roll back globalisation. Plus: Monocle’s luxury markets editor, Brenda Tuohy, speaks to the creative director and founder of MB&F at Watches and Wonders in Geneva. Finally, Zimbabwe-born singer-songwriter Eska joins us in the studio to discuss her music and the event she co-curated, ‘Love to Love You Baby: Donna Summer Reimagined’.

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UK correspondent for Austrian magazine ‘Falter’, Tessa Szyszkowitz, joins Georgina Godwin following her trip to Silicon Valley to discuss today’s #TeslaTakedown protests and the local backlash to Jeff Bezos’s Venetian wedding. Plus: Monocle’s Toronto correspondent, Tomos Lewis, explores independent bookshop Flying Books at Neverland. Then: Sanjoy K Roy and Anand George discuss food and music at the inaugural Voices of Faith festival.

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