Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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

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know how a bargain is struck. We look at an unusual tradition of silenced negotiation

that's shifting now that more and more women are doing the negotiating.

But first...

In Hong Kong yesterday, hundreds of police officers raided the headquarters of Apple

Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper. They forced journalists out of the newsroom, seized computers

and froze company bank accounts. The paper's editor-in-chief, Ryan Law, was led out of his

apartment in handcuffs.

We arrest four men and one woman for the offense to collusion with the fallen countries

and the external elements.

The media company's bosses were arrested for articles that allegedly threatened national

security.

So the answer is simple, do your journalistic work as freely as you like in accordance

with the law, provided you do not conspire or have any intention to break the Hong Kong

law?

It was the culmination of months of pressure on the newspaper, which is owned by the billionaire

anti-government activist Jimmy Lai, himself facing life in prison for his role in a series

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