Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Shashank Joshi,

filling in for Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events

shaping your world. Women's rights have become a galvanising issue in modern China. The

Communist Party, unsurprisingly, isn't keen on any sort of activism, but it does want

to show that it cares. The result is a rather selective, state-sponsored feminism. And when

Anne Sax will be visited Florence in her 20s, she wondered why she couldn't get its sublime

cheeses back home in Chicago. So when she returned, she became a champion of the food. We

look back at the life of a woman who changed America's relationship to cheese.

But first, this weekend world leaders will gather in Rome for the G20 summit. On the sidelines

of that summit, President Joe Biden is going to meet with his key European allies, and they're

going to discuss the next steps on Iran. Missed Biden has struggled to revive a multinational

nuclear deal that was negotiated by Barack Obama in 2015, and then abandoned by Donald Trump

three years later.

Fresh talks over Iran's nuclear programme came to a halt this summer, and the country

has been dragging its feet on reviving those. This week, Iran finally said it would resume

nuclear negotiations by the end of November. But in a press conference on Wednesday,

Hossain Amir Abdelahyan, the Iranian foreign minister, warned that those talks would not

pick up where they had left off, and he repeated a demand that America release billions of

dollars in frozen funds. Hope that an agreement can be reached is now fading very fast indeed.

Meanwhile, Iran's enemies are hardly sitting back.

This week, Israel hosted seven other air forces for its blue flag exercises in the Negev

desert, and as an Israeli army spokesperson explained, that's not all it's doing.

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