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 and X 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.

And 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 fulfill the repeated promises of Parliament to the people and come out of

the EU in October 31st. We will do everything to stop no deal, including

a no-confidence mode, vote at the appropriate very early time to do it. The Prime Minister

seems to be trying to slip no deals 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.

I'm going to restore trust in our democracy.

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

the many ties that Britain has with the bloc. But there are growing signs that Mr.

Johnson might find support for such a move. President Trump's National Security Advisor,

John Bolton, visited London this week, seeming enthusiastic about a no-deal Brexit, saying

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