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Cohort - In-year order intake 1.3x turnover

February 2024

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To paraphrase an old saying “there are decades in which nothing happens and weeks in which decades happen” and 2023 was very much an example of the latter. It began with tentative hopes that Ukraine’s long-planned counter offensive might force a quick end to Russian hostilities but not only did those hopes evaporate but a new crisis erupted in Gaza and is now preventing commercial shipping from using the Red Sea (for fear of attack from Iranian backed Houthi rebels in Yemen) in spite of the US Navy intercepting cheap drones with US$1m missiles. Meanwhile, there’s been an up-tick in Communist Chinese warships and aircraft encroaching into the Taiwanese Strait weeks ahead of the latter’s democratic elections. As the odds on a catas ...

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