Ep. 119: Daniel Wagner - Checking in on the State of the World

It's always a pleasure to welcome back Daniel Wagner to the show. Daniel has been a guest several times. He is a geopolitical risk expert, CEO of Country Risk Solutions, and has written several books on risk topics – including China Vision, AI Supremacy, and Virtual Terror amongst others. In this episode, Daniel joins me from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire where he is on assignment and we check in on the state of the world, primarily from the perspective of geopolitics. We recorded it about a month ago, October 2019. We cover an amazing amount of ground, including: The China-US trade war; Greta Thunberg and climate change; The trend of "party over country" in the US and UK; Donald Trump and foreign policy; Sustainability; China's Belt and Road Initiative; What's happening in Hong Kong; Russia and election security; Eliud Kipchoge's sub-2 hour marathon and the fervour this has created in Kenya; Things you might not be hearing about, particularly with regard to Africa Much more Show notes: Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/countryriskmgmt Daniel's company, Country Risk Solutions: http://countryrisksolutions.com/ Daniel's recent books:                 China Vision on Amazon's US site China Vision on Amazon's UK site                 AI Supremacy                 Virtual Terror Ep. 91 with Daniel and Keith Furst, Ep 102 Ep 98  Ep 69,  Ep 57, Ep 17 and Ep 10 with Daniel Wagner The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI); Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Like what you heard? Subscribe and/or leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/1PjLmK Subscribe on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/all-things-risk/the-all-things-risk-podcast Subscribe on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ben-cattaneo Follow the podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiskThings Drop us a note: [email protected]  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Our free course module "How to Set Up Any Decision for Success" from our upcoming course How to Make Decisions With Calm and Confidence