Andrew Collingwood and Philip Pilkington soldier gamely on in the second episode of Multipolarity - charting the rise of the new multipolar world order.

This week:

A new report suggests the Chinese might be about to bankroll a naval base in Argentina. 

As the green revolution takes hold, can the West even build the supply lines for the huge quantities of metals and minerals we’ll need for all those EV batteries? 

And: is the World Trade Organisation crumbling? The Wall Street Journal seems to think so...  

Philip Pilkington and Andrew Collingwood christen the pod by hashing over some of the week's biggest geopolitics stories.

Just who is the enormous whale biting chunks out of the global gold market?

Is China about to find a way to leapfrog the US advantage in high-end silicon chips? 

And then: most pundit predictions for 2023 seem to involve a minor recession - but are those analyses even over the target?