Premium Edition Teaser: Shanghai Surprise, Bolivarian Counter-Revoution, Bond Villains
Narendra Modi. In Shanghai. In the back of a car. With Vladimir Putin. Positively glowing.
The tweets the Indians sent out at the Shanghai Co-Operation Organisation were the equivalent of a taken for granted girlfriend openly flirting with the jocks at the big keg party. The key question: is this obvious piece of signalling going to be stronger than the thick skulls of the lugs in Washington?
Meanwhile, in Venezuela, US destroyers are patrolling the coastline. Ostensibly to stop cartel shipments. Are they about to make a Noriega of Maduro?
Finally, in Britain, the bond yield has hit a thirty…
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