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.

President Donald Trump dismisses it as the Deep State Department.

America's foreign service is demoralized and increasingly sidelined,

thanks in large part to Mr. Trump's efforts.

We examine the agency's decline and what it means for global diplomacy.

And many women in China

suffer the expectation that by age 30

they should have a good job, a husband, and a baby.

A new television show thumbs its nose

at a standard that arose in the era of Confucius,

and viewers are lapping it up.

But first...

We wiped out about 20 Muslim villages, says Zaw Neng Tun, following orders to kill all,

irrespective of children and adults.

Private Tun says his orders came directly from a senior commander in the army of Myanmar.

His battalion, he says, killed about 80 Muslims, men and women, the elderly and children. They also raped Muslim women.

He lists name after name of his superiors as he recounts the rapes.

There were a lot of them, he says.

He cannot remember them all.

The emotionless testimony which emerged this week is haunting, shocking, shocking, but it's entirely in line with allegations that have been made for years against Myanmar's military.

In 2017, the army went on a rampage in Rakhine state, home to the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority.

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