Square dealing: Jiang Zemin dies
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Chinese leader who took over a squabbling party following the Tiananmen Square massacre surprised the world by stifling dissent, overseeing a staggering economic awakening—and occasionally breaking into song. We examine the lessons to be drawn from his legacy. After scores of failures, a new Alzheimer’s treatment shows real promise. And our annual ranking of the world’s most expensive cities.
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| 1:02.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. |
| 1:05.5 | Today, from London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:08.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:16.8 | Sufferers of Alzheimer's disease and their families have had one disappointment after another for years, |
| 1:23.2 | as candidate drugs have failed to make it to market. |
| 1:26.8 | We look at a genuinely promising new treatment |
| 1:29.9 | that seems at last to slow the march of Alzheimer's. |
| 1:35.1 | And it's time for our annual cost of living index, |
| 1:38.4 | analyzing the most expensive and the cheapest cities in the world. |
| 1:42.7 | As you might expect, inflation has driven up costs in most places. |
| 1:46.8 | But not all. |
| 1:48.2 | And there's a new city at the top of the list. |
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