This is a Global Player Original podcast.

On today's podcast, we are going to talk about construction.

Well, we're going to talk about walls in particular.

We're going to talk about the Great Wall and we're going to talk about the red wall.

Yeah, it's sort of boundaries, isn't it?

We're taking you to China to look at the

protests and that strength of feeling now against President Xi Jinping. And we're also going to

look at the strength of feeling, spot the segue, amongst... It's seamless. Seameless. Yeah, it's

thank God I pointed it out to you. With all these Conservative MPs that are stepping down, relinquishing their seats before perhaps they think they would lose them anyway.

Welcome to the newsagents.

This is John. And this is Emily. And we're in Newsagents. This is John.

And this is Emily.

And we're in Newsagents HQ.

And we want to talk a little bit about the China protests, what's happening on the streets, what's happening behind the scenes.

And also our own governments, and that is successive governments' responses to China over the years, because

we thought we'd go back on the basis of what Rishi Sunak was saying last night, and work out

if there is any kind of method to the madness of how UK governments, successive UK governments,

deal with China. Yeah, but let's just consider what's

happening on the streets to start with. Once upon a time when you said somebody was a blank sheet of paper,

you said they were an idiot. In China today, if you are seen holding a blank piece of paper,

you are seen as subversive, you are seen as someone who

is threatening the state. And so on the internet now, people who may have posted a picture

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