Square dealing: Jiang Zemin dies
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The Economist
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🗓️ 1 December 2022
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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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| 0:00.0 | Carry, it's me. |
| 0:03.4 | Yes, have I got news for you is publishing a quiz of the yearbook. |
| 0:06.7 | It's filled as the perfect gift for Christmas, filled with hilarious questions based on 2022. |
| 0:12.3 | Yes, they do mention you in it, but I'm more concerned my epic Prime Ministerial demise |
| 0:17.3 | is going to feature quite heavily, so we need to buy up every copy. |
| 0:21.0 | Yes, it's okay, I can knock out a couple of aftertons in his speech to pay for it. |
| 0:25.3 | Yes, it's called Have I Got News for You, The Quiz of 2022. |
| 0:29.4 | Let's get to the details now. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:39.4 | Today from London, I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:42.8 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:50.8 | Sufferers of Alzheimer's disease and their families have had one disappointment after |
| 0:55.4 | another for years as candidate drugs have failed to make it to market. |
| 1:00.8 | We look at a genuinely promising new treatment that seems at last to slow the march of Alzheimer's. |
| 1:07.8 | And it's time for our annual cost of living index, analyzing the most expensive and the |
| 1:14.5 | cheapest cities in the world, as you might expect inflation has driven up costs in most |
| 1:19.7 | places, but not all, and there's a new city at the top of the list. |
| 1:25.7 | First up though. |
| 1:42.7 | James Minn, a former leader of China's Communist Party, has died aged 96. |
| 1:48.7 | In the early 1980s, the Chinese flag was put at half-mast. |
| 1:52.7 | In that same square in 1989, had been protests that were as remarkable in their time as today's |
| 1:59.7 | demonstrations in China are. |
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