Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

Today in London I'm your host Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The Arctic hosts plenty of scientific research, most of all on how climate change will continue

to play out.

But a lot of the Arctic is Russian territory.

The western ties to Russian scientists totally severed and research put on ice.

All of that work is at risk.

And perhaps no genre of music upended the status quo as much as punk, leaving behind a mythology

of its formation and its heroes.

As a new dramatization hits screens, we look at the truth behind the myth-making and whether

it matters.

But first…

China's foreign minister Wang Yi is doing a little damage control today.

He was forced to address a number of Pacific island countries telling them not to be too

anxious about China's plans in the region.

Mr. Wang is in the middle of an eight-country Pacific tour, attempting to strike broad

cooperation agreements with island nations.

But a big meeting with ten of their foreign ministers today failed to reach consensus.

Sticking point seems to be on matters of security.

Last month a security deal that China inked with the Solomon Islands prompted a scramble

among western diplomats.

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