Pesident Xi does not want Russia's actions to restrict China's ability to act, nor President Putin's destiny to shape his own. Trying to avoid writing about the situation in Ukraine, I feel a bit like the manic hotelier Basil Fawlty who keeps trying to avoid mentioning “The War” when some Germans stay at his hotel. Still, there it is, a disruptive fact sitting in the midst of all our plans like a dog egg on the board room table. Russia does not appear to have achieved its war

Decoupling joins Decarbonisation and Digitalisation on the Strategy Agenda Russia’s unwinnable war in Ukraine grinds on, giving us Generation X’ers the same nightmares we had as teenagers when our teachers told us we faced inevitable obliteration from Soviet Russian nuclear weapons. Putin’s problem is not what happens if he loses – in that case, he is finished, eventually if not immediately. His problem is what happens if he wins. He will end up ruling over a devastated, unpr

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is sending global energy and agricultural markets into a spin. Oil prices are up at USD 120 a barrel. Physical wheat prices are over USD 11 a bushel for the first time since 2008 at the peak of the China and property bubble. Russia and Ukraine supply nearly a third of global wheat exports. Russia has signed a deal to sell more wheat to China, perhaps anticipating sanctions. It will soon be able to harvest and export wheat from Ukraine to its easte