When you've got to go, you've got to go… but finding a clean, comfortable restroom in the city can be a real challenge.

In this #DuncansDispatch from NYC we are exploring how @yedi.app (a start-up I'm backing launching its consumer app in coming weeks) is redefining the public restroom experience.

🕶️ New episode of #DuncansDispatch - this time from 沖縄 Okinawa 🌺 and Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).
Shoutout to Koshu Kunii, General Partner at Lifetime Ventures 👓

#StartupEcosystem #Biotech #Climatetech #Innovation #Sustainability #ScienceMeetsNature #JapanTravel #MetaRayBan

Good to join from Beijing another Duncan - Duncan Hewitt - on his podcast 'China in Context' for SOAS University of London to chat China tech, AI and all the rest...

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on.ft.com/4nSibXx What China wants from Europe

Great piece by the FT's Simon Kuper quoting a number of our @asiasociety.org France @salzburgglobal.bsky.social China Summer Summit speakers

Will be in the magazine section this weekend if you want to get off your (made in China) devices :)

Looking forward to co-hosting in Paris the inaugural China Summer Summit on July 9th with new Asia Society France Co-Chair Lionel de Saint-Exupéry and event co-organizers Salzburg Global and ASPI's Center for China Analysis.

Great line-up with more to come! Email [email protected] for info.

"Eddie is winning plaudits internally for having trimmed the old and built the new. Jack [Ma] and Joe [Tsai] ultimately made the decision to bet on him and it's paying off"

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In other news... sharing thoughts this morning on NPR's Weekend Edition on the significance of Jack Ma's return to a greater degree of prominence in China

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A point the great @sabfis3.bsky.social was making to me in Berlin a couple of days ago. See also her forthcoming book - “Chauvinism”

Excited to join the Board of Rest of World, which with c. 86% of the population outside the West is a big Rest :) restofworld.org/inside/rest-...

Wonderful 'Laowai Lounge' 老外饭局 2nd edition tonight from @asiasocietyfrance.bsky.social at the amazing Imperial Treasure Paris

After the rain, inspecting the Palais Royal and the Louvre...

Here comes the Son! (Masayoshi that is) - by FT Editor Lionel Barber in his engrossing new book 'Gambling Man' about SoftBank's founder.

Hosted by Asia Society France and the Comité d'Échanges Franco-Japonais + Essec.

Grab your seat - or your Zoom link - here.

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