This week’s podcast comes out at Halloween and may feature one or two shockingly dreadful puns. But these are moments of levity amid some serious news for the resolution of the trade war, with protest-hit Chile announcing a cancellation of the APEC summit, in which Donald Trump and Xi Jinping were to meet and sign off on ‘phase one’ of a trade deal.

Zhou Xin unpacks what his sources in Beijing are saying about the surprise cancellation of the summit, the speculation about Macau being a…