Covid protests rock China

Pod Save the World

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss the anti-covid lockdown protests sweeping across China, soccer and politics at the World Cup, including the US win over Iran, Biden’s steady effort to thaw relations with Venezuela, updates from Ukraine, Belarus and Malaysia, news about the royal family and a victory for a boring French man. Then Ben is joined by Emma Belcher, President of the Ploughshares Fund to discuss how credible Russia’s nuclear threat really is.

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0:00.0	As we've discussed, there aren't many crazy political situations right now
0:04.1	than the recent events in the United Kingdom.
0:06.4	They're onto their third prime minister of the year.
0:08.5	Their economy is on life support.
0:10.3	South ingredients are becoming important political pundits.
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0:18.9	It's a political podcast that was taken,
0:21.4	written by storm since it launched in March.
0:23.9	It is now the most downloaded podcast in the country.
0:26.9	Posted by Rory Stewart, he lost to Boris Johnson in the previous Tory party leadership elections
0:30.9	in 2019.
0:31.9	An Aleister Campbell, who was Tony Blair's right-hand man when he was prime minister.
0:35.6	He got a right-winger.
0:36.8	He got a left-winger.
0:37.8	They come together and they make the sense of the madness and they disagree agreeably.
0:42.2	I've listened to many, many episodes of the rest as politics.
0:45.5	It's a great show.
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0:51.5	They could be making it.
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