We start today's double podcast discussing developments in Europe which suggests not only internal problems within nations in the Eutozone but also increasing tensions between Western European nations and between the Western and Eastern European nations. We then move onto the issue of decoupling from China and why the US proposal is a non-starter. We then discuss the latest G7 foreign ministers meeting in Japan and why there is little agreement on the US's proposed Indo-Pacific strategy. We conclude discussing a recent development between China and Russia and how this is part of a counter balance to the US Indo-Pacific strategy.