Patience zero: China’s remarkable unrest
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Protests have become as bold as they are widespread—mostly against the country’s unsustainable zero-covid policies, but increasingly against the ruling regime itself. California’s wildfires have been growing more intense, and a new analysis shows just how much those blazes undo the good work of the state’s green policies. And a look at the evolution of the Great British Lad.
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| 1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:04.3 | In London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:06.2 | And in New York, I'm John Fastman. |
| 1:08.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.0 | We've been telling you for years about the extensive wildfires in America's West, a natural but |
| 1:21.4 | intensifying part of the region's ecology. Now comes the worst news. California's fires are creating emissions that easily offset |
| 1:30.0 | any of its green policies. And one of Britain's stereotypes is the lad. Committed to drinking and |
| 1:38.0 | football and the unabashed trash-talking known as banter, the lad is a cultural touchstone. Yet, as various sensitivities |
| 1:46.2 | heighten, lads do seem to be changing with the times. A bit. But first. Shanghai, Shanghai, |
| 2:02.6 | Saudi, |
| 2:04.6 | all it takes is a look on social media |
| 2:09.6 | to see that China's citizens have had enough |
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