This week, Grace talks to Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, and author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. They discuss the fascinating architecture and infrastructure that underpins the backbone of capitalism - global shipping - and what these networks tell us about state power, corporate sovereignty and imperialism - as well as how they are changing with China's increasingly assertive economic expansion.

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