Mm.

And we're at that point now where there's a significant ignorance on the teachings of Roman Catholicism, what they actually mean and what they hold to.

Particularly in the context where the Catholic Church is holding its arms out to us and saying, "We're united, we're together, we're all Christians.

We're not fighting anymore.

We're brothers." Um, it's, it's, it's a dangerous time that we're in at the moment because as Evangelicals, we don't understand Catholic theology very well.

So the aim of this course is to get it into small groups, to get, get it into the pews, to get it into the, the churches a, a, a clear understanding of authentic Roman Catholicism today.

And if you're gonna understand Roman Catholicism, then you need to start with what the Catholic Church believes its reason for being is, which is-

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

And we're at that point now where there's a significant ignorance on the teachings of Roman Catholicism, what they actually mean and what they hold to, particularly in the context where the Catholic Church is holding its arms out to us and saying, "We're united, we're together, we're all Christians.

We're not fighting anymore.

We're brothers." Um, it's, it's, it's a dangerous time that we're in at the moment because as evangelicals, we don't understand Catholic theology very well.

So the aim of this course is to get it into small groups, to get, get it into the pews, to get it into the, the churches a, a, a clear understanding of authentic Roman Catholicism today.

And if you're gonna understand Roman Catholicism, then you need to start with what the Catholic Church believes its reason for being is-

Mm-hmm.

There's, um, primary documents from Roman Catholics, um, so that you're dealing with authentic Roman Catholicism, not a derived version of Roman Catholicism, so you can pick into those if you want to.

So that's a fear as well, isn't it?

Yeah.

Nobody knows.

But the biggest issue is when people don't know what's going on is that bear in mind, we're in the age of the great age of communication.

Okay.

We have social media, we have news channels, we have all types of channels, including yourselves, giving information out all the time.

So why is it that we seem to have authorities who are unable to communicate with the general public, with local people, with the country about what actually in reality is going on? And we have to fight.

Yeah,

Uh, listen, Jordan's gonna be doing a lot of knee thumping in the not too distant future because you've just got into the London Marathon, so we wanna protect your knees.

Oh, I've never run in my life either.

Um, I know it's, it's a crazy idea to raise a bit of money for, um, a condition I've got, to, to sort of give a bit back, and I got in on a charity place.

So I thought, "Ah, I need to start training." [laughs]

Yeah.

Perforated my bowel.

I had to have some bowel removed.

Whilst in hospital, caught COVID, more bowel got removed.

What do you mean by a patchwork world order?

Well, Marlee, first of all, great to be with you again.

Thank you for having me here.

Yeah, what we mean by multi-nodal trade patchwork is essentially the direction of travel for the trade of goods.

We look at it from a perspective of where is it going to end up 10 years out? And you can think about four main nodes, the U.S., China, BRICS Plus, and the plurilateralists.

Plurilateralists is a big word, but it basically means folks that are looking for trade agreements and continuing to trade under normal rules.

Think EU, UK, South Korea, Asian countries, Canada.

So how should a corporate strategist or a company be thinking about geopolitical risk in this new world order? How do they best be prepared?

And is any of this creating trade vulnerabilities for these cross-border services?

Well, for sure, some nations are long services.

The US is a really, really large surplus in services, the UK, particularly in professional services, India in outsourcing services.

So you've got some nations that are incidentally quite exposed to services.

the main the main game here is to keep that that that longevity of service offering by ensuring access and we see the us administration making sure in its discussions and trade agreements with various nations on the topic of goods ensure that they're gaining access to foreign markets so that they can continue having a trade surplus those that don't get access will struggle to continue being net exporters of services

And how much is AI a component of this rapid growth we're seeing in the services trade?

Well, it's massive.

First of all, the growth in trade, which is twice the growth in goods of global service trade offering, the main driver is technology and the main driver of technology is AI.