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Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

Today from London, I'm your host Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

There is a China where the only fixation is a technological march toward greatness and plenty,

unmarred by protests or high-COVID numbers.

It's the China of the Evening State News Broadcast.

We settle in for a watch of the CCP's preferred narrative.

And despite plenty of progress toward gender parity in many professions, there's one in

which women had not played much of a role.

Funeral directors.

We ask why in America that's changing so fast.

First up though.

Iran is on the second day of a three-day general strike, and it's not quiet resistance.

Robkeepers and students walked out of their jobs and schools in almost 40 cities, some

naming the Supreme Leader and chanting, Death to the Dictator.

It's been 11 weeks since protesters first poured onto Iran's streets, following the

death of 22-year-old Masa Amani at the hands of the morality police for not properly

...