The Economist

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I'm Rosie Bloor.

And I'm Jason Palmer.

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

Quantum technology involves something called qubits that should help us solve problems exponentially faster than today's computers.

Britain is surprisingly good at this qubit thing.

Question is, can it turn early promise into a lasting advantage?

And picture an orchestra, all those bows scraping across strings. Odds are they're all made from the same wood.

The wood that this week, conservationists are fighting to protect more strongly in international law,

but it's not clear that they really need to.

First up, though.

The island of Cuba has been one of the world's last resolute bastions of pure textbook communism going back to the late 1950s.

Batista had buckled and pledged, and Castro entered Havana in triumph without the last battle.

Long-time listeners to the intelligence will remember that back in Donald Trump's first term,

we visited a lot.

Then it was run by Raul Castro, fellow revolutionary brother of Fidel,

whose popular revolt has defined the country for six decades.

We kept hearing about Cuban's struggles,

long lines to get into stores with nothing on the

shelves, the market distortions of parallel currencies, one that sported Castro's barret topped face

and another pegged to the U.S. dollar. The pains of a country whose diplomatic relations

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