Simon Marks joins with the latest from Washington as president-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet begins to take shape. Also in the programme: Monocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco on the impact of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, being charged with plotting a coup d’etat. Then: we flick through the latest issue of ‘Monocle: The Entrepreneurs’ with Tomos Lewis and speak to the American political scientist, Oriana Skylar Mastro, about her new book ‘Upstart: How China Became a Great Power’.

Live from Zürich: How will the upgraded China trade deal affect Swiss business?
38:32

How would the US pulling troops from the Gulf shift regional power dynamics?
33:39

Is the Gordie Howe International Bridge a symbol of all that’s going wrong between the US and Canada?
31:11