We start today's double podcast assessing Macron's visit to China and why Europe continues to find itself caught between a rock and a hard place. We then move onto developments between China and Malaysia and how this represents the huge change in attitudes in Asia in the ever developing multipolar world. We then assess a major financial development in China which sends a very clear signal about their intentions with respect to RMB bond markets, We conclude assessing recent CBDC developments in Switzerland and the UK.