Pride and prejudice: China’s LGBT crackdown

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In much of the world, things are improving for sexual minorities. The opposite is true in China, where authorities are cracking down on the LGBT community. Bangladesh is suffering its worst flooding in living memory, but with a surprisingly low death toll (so far). And which city topped the EIU’s annual Liveability Index. For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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1:12.9	Bangladesh and Northern India are suffering their worst floods in recent memory, with millions
1:17.6	displaced. But thanks to increasingly effective architectural and social adaptation efforts,
1:24.0	the death toll has been far lower than expected.
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