The roles the Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Shanghai stock exchanges play and how those roles have been changing in light of China's reform and the opening up of its financial sector.

What is going on with global stock markets now as leading indicators of companies and global economies.

What increased interest in digital currencies within various countries' governments will do to the global currency market.

Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from:

Foreign Affairs

Le Monde Diplomatique

Jonathan

Fred

The Florida Panhandle and St. Mark's Wildlife Refuge

Data privacy concerns, including the EU's GDPR and California's CCPA, and whether a business or government can ever be 100% cyber secure.

How companies should think about their cybersecurity, including which data generates revenue for the business, the data lifecycle, breach responses, and cyber insurance.

The goals, motivations, cadences, and patterns of state-sponsored and other hacker groups.

Some of the most important issues being discussed today among cybersecurity professionals.

Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from:

Splunk.com's free online webinars

Jonathan

Fred

GQ's The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion

The experience of growing a leading business law firm from the ground up.

Issues affecting women in the legal profession in Spain.

The impact of COVID-19 on Spain and in particular its tourism sector.

What Spain offers to foreign investors.

Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from:

Jonathan

Fred

"China's Man in Washington", by Mara Hvistendahl and Lee Fang (The Intercept)

The impact of COVID-19 on Italy and especially Lombardy, with Alberto's first-hand perspective.

What a typical day looks like for a lawyer in Milan.

The importance of understanding different cultural perspectives.

Why a business lawyer working in a Continental jurisdiction might envy his or her common-law counterparts.

The genesis of Alberto's Milan law firm's partnership with Hong Kong's de Bedin & Lee.

AC Milan or Inter? (Spoiler: It's Juve for Alberto.)

Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from:

Enquanto Salazar dormia (Portuguese) , by Domingos Amaral

Jonathan – "Greece 'sets up soundwave guns on its borders with Turkey to stop illegal migrants'", by Sophie Tanno (Daily Mail)

Fred – Return to the caves of Shan-Gan-Ning border, by Koo Lap (Apple Daily)

How a difficult business meeting after the birth of her daughter led to her founding Akraya and its Women Back to Work initiative that works to educate companies regarding the significant contributions of women who have taken a career break to care for children or other family members.

The success story of one "returner" who is now a project manager at Cisco after a 19 year career gap.

Barriers in the workplace for women of color, especially during and post-Covid.

Sonu's involvement in an international "Peace through Business" program with The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women, including her mentoring women entrepreneurs from Rwanda and Afghanistan.

The worldwide contributions of women to society and women's rights as universal human rights.

Advice for girls and women who want to have full participation and contribute to their work and world environments in meaningful ways.

Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from:

No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks by Ed Viesturs, David Roberts, and Stephen Hoye

Hidden Brain podcast on NPR

Jonathan – World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji on Amazon Prime Video

Fred – Blind Spot: The Road to 9/11 podcast by NPR (hosted by Jim O'Grady)

The role of licensed customs brokers

The experience of working in South Africa and Kenya

Section 301 tariffs: What they are, why they were imposed, and what they mean for Americans

Antidumping and countervailing duty trends

The scourge of forced labor

Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from:

Jonathan – "Why China’s recovery is not what it seems" (Financial Times), by Michael Pettis

Fred – "Beijing Believes Trump Is Accelerating American Decline" (Foreign Policy), by Rush Doshi

South Carolina's consolidation as a foreign investment hub

The importance of judicial clerkships in the American legal system

Mark's LLM studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

The experience of being a Black man in Hong Kong

Thoughts on our current national moment here in the United States

Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from:

Fred – Rough Waters Ahead for Vietnam-China Relations, by Huong Le Thu (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Jonathan – "This is the Asian Century: Seven reasons to be optimistic about it", by Nikkei staff writers (Nikkei Asian Review)

The current Japanese business environment, compared to its Asian neighbors.

How Shinzo Abe's departure and Yoshihide Suga taking the prime minister role will affect the way Japan does business internally and internationally.

Japan's prospects as a country as it continues to grapple with its aging population.

Japanese skill in automatization compared to its prospects for innovation.

Japan's response to China's rise.

Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from:

Murakami Haruki's novels

Fred – Making Sense podcast by Sam Harris, Episode 217 - The New Religion of Anti-Racism

Jonathan – Hamilton musical on Disney+

The law of warfare as it applies to cyberwarfare, and how sovereign powers diverge in their views on the subject.

Cyberwarfare's likely impact on future conflicts.

Where are the world's best hackers?

What rampant IP theft by China reveals about its geopolitical self-perception.

The dangers of cyber-enabled election intervention by foreign powers in the 2020 U.S. elections compared to the 2016 elections.

Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from:

Articles of War (Lieber Institute West Point)

Fred – Intelligence Matters (CBS News)

Jonathan – CounterPoint

Freshworks' expansion from its roots in India to Silicon Valley and beyond.

Covid-19's impact on the work environment and whether multinational companies will fare differently than domestic companies.

Corporate initiatives to address gender disparities in mid- and upper-level management in technology companies.

Reading, listening, and watching recommendations from:

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

Fred – Cádiz are Finally Back, But Not in the Way That They Dreamed Of (The Guardian)

Jonathan – The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull