China’s Coast Guard breaks from the norm and joins this week’s record-setting military exercises around Taiwan. Then: president Zelensky brings Ukraine’s victory plan to the EU and Italy sends migrants to Albania. Plus: Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco takes us to Kazakhstan on this week’s ‘Global Countdown’.

The scramble to take energy infrastructure off the hit list in the Middle East
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All talk? The European Council convenes in Brussels amid global disruption
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Zelensky in Europe as focus shifts to Iran
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