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 Saxelby 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.

Mr. 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.

Never, ever, ever in my life, have I seen any transaction so incompetently negotiated as our deal with Iran.

Fresh talks over Iran's nuclear program 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, Hossein Amir Abolahian, 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.

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