Nick Marro, Principal Economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit and Barry Wood, RTHK's International Economics Correspondent join Chloe Feng as influencers from the US migrate en masse to Xiaohongshu, where officials move forward with their ban on TikTok; and to discuss reprots of President-Elect Donald Trump's incoming economic team's plans to slowly ramp up tariffs month by month as his inauguration inches closer.

Ian Johnston, Chief Executive of the Dubai Financial Services Authority, speaks to us about the top topics from the recently concluded Asia Financial Forum.

Ruchir Desai, Fund Manager at Asia Frontier Capital, joins in to recap a strong 2024 for frontier markets, and to pick out which markets could be potential candidates to overperform as a Trump 2.0 adminstration could dampen momentum seen by these markets post-inauguration amidst threats of further tariffs.