The Agenda Podcast
The Agenda is CGTN Europe’s one stop shop for smart in-depth discussion and lively interviews with expert guests. We debate the issues that really matter in the world today, as well as unpacking the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow with unique insight from the world’s most populous nation – China.From our European headquarters in London, Juliet Mann interviews world leaders, CEOs of global brands, big thinkers, writers, activists, commentators and decision-makers to get answers to the questions the whole world is talking about.
Episodes
2025 marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War.
After eight decades, the exploits of the UK, US and then Soviet Union are justly well remembered. But the role of China, remains largely overlooked in the West.
On this episode of The Agenda, we find out why China’s pivotal role has often been dismissed with world-renowned historian Rana Mitter.
This week marks the final stages of the latest Esports World Cup in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And with a prize pot of more than $70 million, it’s becoming very big business. The global market is projected to surge from $2.09 billion in 2024 to about $9.54 billion by 2034. The biggest market? China.
So what’s driving this growth and just how big could this latest tale of sporting success really get?
To find out, on this epis...
2025 is once again predicted to be one of the hottest years on record.
Climate change has seen high temperatures, drought conditions and forest fires flaring up across the globe. Elsewhere flash floods and huge storms are destroying the landscape.
So as countries like the United States roll back on environmental laws - who's now taking charge of the fight to save the planet? And where is new technology being devel...
It's been a busy few weeks for global trade negotiations.
After Donald Trump made a deal with EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen, US trade negotiators met their Chinese Counterparts in Stockholm - the third such meeting in as many months. There have also been US trade deals or ongoing negotiations with the likes of Japan and South Korea and India.
So, six months after Trump stepped back in the White...
As the film world gears up for a summer box office bonanza - just where do things really stand in global cinema? Hollywood still has yet to return to pre-COVID levels of production and ticket sales, and it’s looking very much like the biggest hit of the year may be an animated sequel, but it’s one made in China - Ne Zha 2.
On this episode of The Agenda. Juliet Mann is joined by Charles Gant, Box office expert and film...
The recent BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro was the 17th annual gathering of the organisation.
But it was the first since 13 new partner countries joined up - including Malaysia, Indonesia and Turkey, and matters were largely overshadowed by Donlad Trump's threat on the last day of the meeting to impose a further 10% in tariffs on BRICS members for what he called "anti-American policies". So just where doe...
June the 20th marked the annual World Refugee Day. And this year the statistics are more troubling than ever - 2024 marked a new record - with almost 130 million people across the world displaced, everywhere from Gaza to Myanmar, Sudan to Venezuela. Last year the UN's Refugee Agency, the UNHCR spent nearly $5bn dollars - less than half of what was needed, thanks largely to governments around the world cutting bac...
On May the 6th, China and the European Union mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties.
But just where do relations between two of the world's largest economies stand in 2025? And are they moving closer together, or further apart – especially as Donald Trump’s tariff plans start to bite?
In this special edition of The Agenda, CGTN’s Li Jianhua talks to Ambassador Cai Run, Head of the Chinese Mission to the...
When President Trump announced 25% tariffs on all cars imported into the US from April, and the same levy all car parts from May, he described them as "permanent."
Since then, his hard lines on trade have become increasingly blurred… but, as things stand, just what are the implications of the somewhat erratic US trade policy for the automotive sector, global supply chains and the world economy? <...
Should the world fear China? It’s a question on the lips of many in a world where a global trade war seems to be looming. It’s also the title of a new book by senior fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy and retired Senior Colonel in China’s People’s Liberation Army, Zhou Bo.
In this Agenda special, Jamie Owen talks to Zhou Bo about his book and gets the author’s reaction to tar...
He hasn't yet spent 100 days back in the White House, but Donald Trump has already upset the world with his extraordinary approach to trade and tariffs.
So where exactly are we headed, and can we expect more of what China has called Trump's "economic bullying"?
On this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Marco Simoni, Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Political Science at Rome&ap...
Five years after the COVID pandemic, which devastated the industry, tourism is now back on its feet. But concerns about over-tourism and the impact of climate change are forcing the sector to look to new ways of operating.
So what does that look like in practice?
On this episode of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to Olga Kefalogianni, Greece’s Tourism Minister, and her Saudi Arabian counterpart, Ahmed Al Khat...
In this CGTN special - China Agenda – Juliet Mann and her guests consider the outcomes of this year's Two Sessions gatherings and what it all means for China, and the rest of the world.
Further modernisation, innovation driven development and further opening up were all key themes at the gatherings, but what will this all look like in practice?
Juliet is joined by Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World...
The results of Germany's snap election are in, and Friedrich Merz is set to be the country's next leader after his Christian Democratic Union took 28% of the vote.
But with the far-right AFD taking a strong second place, Europe's largest economy faltering and rows between the EU and the US only growing, how big a task is he facing?
Joining Juliet Mann on this episode of The Agenda are Heiner Fl...
For decades, the relationship between the United States and Europe has been characterised as a transatlantic alliance with shared values on the likes of foreign policy and security.
But after a week of diplomatic shocks, including the Trump administration excluding Kyiv and Brussels from talks to end the Ukraine war, do the US and Europe still speak the same language?
On this edition of The Agenda, Juli...
At the end of last year, DeepSeek was a little-known Chinese Artificial Intelligence startup.
But by the end of last month it was the most talked about company in the world, whose revolutionary approach to open-sourced generative AI had rocked global markets, wiping more than a trillion dollars off tech and energy stocks, and seemingly leveling the global AI playing field. But what do the shockwaves caused b...
The United Kingdom starts 2025 in something of a financial mess.
Inflation and interest rates remain stubbornly high, and the Labour government, which swept to power in a landslide victory in July of last year, has seen support tumble after its first budget contained tax hikes and spending cuts.
But can UK plc trade its way out of trouble? And what might new relationships, with the US, the EU and C...
2024 will go down as the biggest election year in history - wth more than 2 billion people casting ballots across the globe.
The year also saw inflation and interest rates easing across much of the world, even while geopolitcal tensions remained high.
So what might 2025 have in store?
Joining Juliet Mann to consider just that on this episode of The Agenda are Keyu Jin, Author and Asso...
China and the EU ended 2024 in something of a tricky situation as the row over electric vehicle tariffs threatens to undo much of the good will built up by Xi Jinping’s summer trip to Europe, and visits to Beijing by a number of EU leaders over the past 12 months.
So with the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties coming up in May of 2025 just where do relations stand between two of the world’s biggest trading partners?
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The curtain has now come down on the COP29 climate summit in Baku. And while a trillion dollar deal for climate financing was done at the last minute, some campaigners have called it a betrayal - as much of that figure will have to come from private financing or new sources which have yet to be agreed.
To consider where the meeting really leaves us, and our planet, on this edition of The Agenda podcast, Jul...
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