Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Auré Ogimbi.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

A recently launched campaign requires 97 million Communist Party members to study Xi Jinping's

ideas. Although this kind of policy isn't unusual for China, this one looks quite different

to any that have come before. And the land along Ukraine's front lines is dotted with

undetinated explosives, but the Russians aren't the only ones who put them there. Mining is

part of a defensive war tactic that seems to be working.

First up there... Freedom. Personal freedom is fundamental to who

are Americans. There's nothing more important, nothing more sacred.

It's official. America's president Joe Biden is running in the 2024 election.

Democrats that were once tips to contest the nomination have cheered the announcement.

But the decision to seek a second term has also been met with a fair amount of criticism

from the American public.

He's got the experience of decades in Congress, but it would be nice to kind of get out

of the old male white patriarchy.

I think he's just old.

I'm actually a little bit indifferent. I really haven't seen a lot of the policies and

things that he was saying while he was campaigning. So, you know, I'm kind of at the point where

I really don't care.

Biden was born before the Second World War. He's America's oldest president and beats that

record every day he's in office. And his age has shown on the podium.

Now, sleepy Joe would say the unemployment rate in the great state of Ohio. No, no, you're

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