Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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

An economics textbook that a student might buy today is not so different from books written

a quarter century ago. That is a problem. The field has moved on and students have concerns

the books don't tackle. We look into the effort to rewrite them.

And in the 1980s two British Pakistani teenagers threw together an album that didn't get very

far. A few years ago a copy on earth in New York so captivated the DJ who found it that

she's now re-releasing it. We take a listen to see what the fuss is about.

But first today American warships will take part in exercises in the Indian Ocean as part

of the so-called Quad. A loose coalition with Australian Indian and Japanese forces widely

viewed as a counter to China. Yesterday Japan's Prime Minister Sugayoshihide said that peace

in Taiwan is key to wider stability in Asia. Key subject for Mr. Sugayoshihide's visit

next week to the White House. Diplomatic, economic and even hints of military tensions

have been rising between China and America and its allies. Last month internationally coordinated

sanctions on Chinese officials based on the mistreatment of the Muslim-weager minority

in the province of Xinjiang were swiftly met with Chinese sanctions on American officials.

Where were those troubled China-US relations more apparent than at a hostile meeting of

the two sides last month in Alaska?

Well I think we thought too well of the United States. We thought that the US side will

follow the necessary diplomatic protocols. Some had hoped that the two countries' relationship

would become less confrontational than it had become during Donald Trump's presidency.

Instead it seems only to be deteriorating.

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