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.

Mobile phone technology used to be only about the need for speed,

but 5G has sparked geopolitical battles, worries about spies, international arrests.

America's attempt to control the situation seems to be failing.

We ask what its options are.

And officials in Sri Lanka thought they were doing a public service by outlawing the sale of alcohol.

The public didn't agree.

While the administration flip-flops on when and weather to open liquor stores,

an army of home brewers is bubbling up.

But first...

On Tuesday, a driver for the World Health Organization was killed in Rakhine State in Myanmar after his car was hit by gunfire.

The attack took place in a region where government troops have been locked

in fierce fighting with the Arakhan army, which wants greater autonomy for the state and for the

Rakhine or Arakhan people. Countries, including Britain and America, have called for an end

to fighting amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But clashes have intensified,

and the government's flailing response seems to be boosting the Aricon Army.

In April, the Erickan Army declared a month-long ceasefire,

but it was rejected by the government as unrealistic.

Charlie McCann is the economist's Southeast Asia correspondent.

Fighting between the Erican Army and the Burmese military has escalated

over the last two months, as has a war of words that they've been fighting. Each group has blamed

the other for firing at the WHO car, which is carrying swabs from patients to be tested for coronavirus.

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