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. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014,

it absorbed much of Ukraine's navy.

Since then, Ukraine has been looking to the West for resources and training.

Our correspondent joins a military exercise involving an American destroyer,

underwater drones, and a killer tomato.

And rapid technological change in China

has, until now, left many of the elderly behind.

But the country's tech giants

are starting to tap into the enormous grey market.

But first...

Traditionally, in Britain, summer is a quiet time for politics.

Parliament takes a recess, and the business of government drifts a little till September.

Not this year.

We're going to fulfil the repeated promises of Parliament to the people and come out of the EU on October the 31st.

We will do everything to stop no deal, including a no-confidence vote at the appropriate very early time to do it.

The Prime Minister seems to be trying to slip no deal through, slip past Parliament and slip past the British people.

Parliament will not stand for it. We have the mechanisms available to stop no deal from happening.

Every MP should work to make sure that happens. As new Prime Minister Boris Johnson gets into his stride,

his mantra, much repeated, is that he will lead Britain out of the European Union by the deadline

of October 31st. We're going to restore trust in our democracy.

Many fear it would be incredibly disruptive to leave the EU with no plan for replacing

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