Hello and welcome to the intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

On China's social media apps, a new genre of post is climbing the charts, criticism of capitalism.

Many of the young and overworked have a disdain for the country's big businesses and its filthy rich that all sounds a bit Marxist.

And French authorities made the call to keep their ski resorts open, but the ski lifts shut.

Our correspondent goes along to see how an industry that should be in peak season is faring,

and it's not an uplifting tale.

First up, though,

rumors and scattered reports of atrocities in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray

have been swirling for months amid a media blackout.

But the picture is now starting to become clearer,

and evidence for war crimes and crimes against humanity are stacking up.

On Sunday, America's Secretary of State Anthony Blinken

condemned the killings, sexual assaults, and forced removals,

said to have taken place in Tigray and called for troops to be withdrawn.

The conflict began late last year when the region's ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation

Front, or TPLF, was booted out of the federal government, where it had dominated for decades.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced a, quote, final military operation against the defiant Tigray province in coming days.

In a statement, Mr. Abe said there was a carefully devised strategy to defeat the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front in the regional capital Macalais without harming civilians.

Late in November, Mr. Abbey declared victory over the TPLF, but armed resistance

has continued. Yesterday, his government rejected America's demands, describing Mr. Blinken's

comments as regrettable. Thousands are known to have died in the conflict, and more than

two million people have been displaced. The growing civil war has drawn in fighters from neighboring regions,

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