Not-purchasing power: boycotts in Myanmar
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
As demonstrations against February’s coup continue, many are trying a subtler form of resistance: starving army-owned businesses of revenue. We ask whether the ploy will work. Snippets of Neanderthal DNA survive in most humans—and they are a mixed blessing as regards the risks of covid-19. And, not for the first time, Britain’s census questions reveal the preoccupations of a nation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.6 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.0 | Most people have at least a little DNA from Neanderthals, thanks to at least a little |
| 0:22.8 | interbreeding in humans' earliest days. |
| 0:26.2 | That DNA holds some good news and some bad news in terms of modern humans' response |
| 0:31.3 | to the coronavirus. |
| 0:34.0 | And yesterday was Census Day in Britain. |
| 0:36.9 | Actually, I have to go put mine in the post. |
| 0:39.6 | We take a historical look at how past censuses reveal changing societal norms and preoccupations |
| 0:45.7 | and ask what the questions this time say about Britain in 2021. |
| 0:57.0 | But first... Protests against the military coup in Myanmar continued this weekend. |
| 1:10.2 | In the city of Mouniwa yesterday, security forces set off stun grenades as demonstrators |
| 1:15.8 | hurled missiles and lit fireworks. |
| 1:19.0 | On Saturday, people fled gunfire in the capital, Neipidaw. It's estimated that nearly 250 protesters have been killed since the coup at the beginning of February. |
| 1:33.3 | Some targeted by snipers, others killed at random. |
| 1:37.3 | The violence has prompted people to find other means of protest. |
| 1:41.3 | The protesters are not giving up. They are continuing to demonstrate on the streets, despite the ever-growing brutality of |
| 1:48.6 | the army. |
| 1:49.7 | At the same time, though, they are also protesting in a subtler way. |
| 1:54.4 | Charlie McCann is the economist's Southeast Asia correspondent. |
| 1:57.8 | If you go to supermarkets, corner stores across the country, it will be very difficult |
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