The US Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, begins a four-day trip to China today to ease tensions between the world’s two major economies. We discuss the highlights from Italy’s most important film awards, the Globo d’oro, which took place in Rome last night. Plus, Tom Webb has a global newspaper review and Fernando Augusto Pacheco reveals Monocle’s summer playlist on The Global Countdown.

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