Hello, my name is David Ronserman and this is Talking Politics. Today, Helen and I, and

it is mainly Helen, are going to have our first go at answering some of the questions

that you've been sending in about the big issues we've been discussing over the past year.

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we have had lots, literally hundreds and they are great questions and we're going to try

and get quite a lot of them so we're going to do a series of these episodes and we're

trying to break it down very broadly into themes. We had lots of questions about bridge

politics in the future of the union and we're going to come to that next week. Today we're

looking at geopolitics and that means some of the big talking politics themes, Helen themes,

questions about energy, about climate, about China and about the state of the global economy

coming out of the pandemic. Our producer, Catherine Karl, is going to put the questions

to us. These are our attempts to give you some answers. Let me just hang on one second,

let me turn it around because it might leave. Okay, so the first question we've got in geopolitics

is, can you address the question of what the geopolitics of vaccines might look like?

I don't know, I think you should take a crack at that one. You're going to say this on all

the questions. Yes, I know. I don't think it's a question of what it might look like. I

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