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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Oire Ocumby. And I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Let's go for a little ride, shall we? Not in a car, no. Not even in a bus or a truck, but in a robo-taxie.

The self-driving cars are a polarizing topic in California, but with expansion on the horizon,

we chat with our correspondent to see if he's on board.

And the sea ice in Antarctica comes and goes with the seasons.

The amount that it goes in the summer has long worried climatologists.

But there's a newer, worrying trend. It's not coming back as much even in the continent's winter.

First up, though.

Country Garden, one of China's housing giants, is looking shaky, and that creates worries

right across the Chinese economy.

Housing markets are always a reasonable chunk of the economic system, but in China that

chunk is enormous, accounting for perhaps 30% of the country's GDP.

That's why last year, when the heavily indebted housing firm Evergrand defaulted,

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