On China, it is best to start with the not-sogood news for the UK. In December, Biden announced he was nominating Katherine Tai to the cabinet-level post of US trade representative. Biden has already made it clear that, unlike Trump's earlier unfulfilled claims, he does not see a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain as an immediate priority. Tai's appointment underlines that. Her current role as chief trade counsel to the Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives and work there on the USMCA, the successor to NAFTA agreement with the US and Mexico, qualify her for the cabinet role. But Tai is also a fluent Mandarin speaker - she taught in Guangzhou for two years in the late 1990s - and has worked extensively on US-China trade issues in government, representing Washington in disputes with Beijing at the World Trade Organization. Biden's immediate trade priority is clearly finding a definitive resolution to the existing trade war between the two superpowers as part of his wider foreign policy agenda.