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🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Spectator is searching for the UK's brightest entrepreneurs to enter the Spectator Economic Innovator of the Year awards, in partnership with Charles Stanley Wealth managers. |
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0:22.2 | Hello and welcome to the edition. |
0:24.9 | Each week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing issues in the |
0:29.0 | week's magazine with the writers behind them. |
0:31.6 | I'm Laura Prendergast. |
0:33.2 | This week, why has Cambridge taken so much Chinese money? |
0:37.6 | Plus, will the Church of England's new plans for modernisation |
0:41.0 | leave us with an institution we even recognise? |
0:44.3 | And finally, why is streaker's so hilarious? |
0:48.4 | First up, the spectator's cover story this week |
0:51.1 | looks into the ever tighter relationship between Cambridge University and China. |
0:55.5 | To discuss, I'm joined by the author of the piece and Every Breath You Take, a study of China's surveillance date, Ian Williams, and Harry Goodwin, editor-in-chief of the Cambridge student. |
1:06.7 | In your cover piece this week, you look at how Cambridge has somewhat compromised its integrity |
1:11.2 | because of its relations with China. When did this start to become a problem? |
1:16.5 | I think it's been a problem for some time, but more recently it's become more serious. |
1:23.1 | Cambridge would argue they've always had a very strong relationship with China research relationship and |
1:29.4 | academic interest in, which is fair enough. But I would date back the recent problems to what we |
1:36.1 | might call the Cameron Osborne Golden Era. And that was very much like a starting gun, you know, |
1:43.1 | bang, and everybody goes for the Chinese money. |
1:45.7 | And it was almost as if any notion of due diligence, any notion of caution was thrown to the wind |
1:53.1 | when it became official policy to grab Chinese money and Chinese business just as quickly as you could in quantities as large as you could get hold of. |
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