Hello, my name's David Rundsenman 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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Thank you so much to everyone who sent in a question. We have had lots, literally hundreds, and they are great questions. And we're going to try and get to 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 British politics and 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 Carl, is going to put the questions to us.

These are our attempts to give you some answers.

Let me just hang on one second.

It's five or ten if I can because I 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?

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