Former Minister Dr Ong Kian Ming and Professor Danny Quah from the LKYSPP chat geopolitics of trade in an indie bookstore in Kuala Lumpur. The masterclass on the new world disorder, is something we don’t think with through shocks, electric vehicles and new geometry of alliances. The EV is a common good, for the planetary commons and the global supply chains.

Tintabudi is a chic bookstore and events space with good coffee where this ticketed event was hosted on a Saturday afternoon. Great audience of think tankers, policy wonks, researchers were around to ask the sharpest questions in the Q&A and the after the event.

A sense of intellectual community was found certainly. And Kuala Lumpur/Penang have amazing independent bookstores.

I took copious notes on the New World of Disorder and the China/US Shocks.