“After months of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing amid talk of economic decoupling and a new cold war, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping sought in Bali to turn down the heat” wrote Irish Times China Correspondent Denis Staunton about this week’s G20 summit.

Denis joins Hugh to talk about how the relationship between China and the West is evolving on this week’s podcast.

But first Denis gives his early impressions of life in China, having taken up the role of China Correspondent this autumn.