We start today's double podcast discussing the highly significant announcement by a number of Chinese banks with respect to the RMB gold digital wallets and why this is a profound development. We then move onto developments at the recent ministerial meeting at the SCO in India and why the SCO is beginning to make significant strides forward in terms of what the aims of this organisation should be. We then move onto developments associated with Syria and Iran and why this is a further indication that the US's days of occupying the country are coming to an end. We conclude discussing the UK Gilt markets and why the UK pension's debacle last autumn was the tip of the iceberg.