The Intelligence: A civil society in waiting
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The ruling military junta that seized power in a coup in 2021 is losing ground, slowly—and the rebels are now thinking about what happens if they win. We examine the structural reasons behind Britain’s dearth of industrial robots (10:22). And climate change boosts Canada’s yields of maple syrup, but also threatens to make them unpredictable (15:44).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, |
| 0:14.9 | Ora Ogunbi. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:20.3 | shaping your world. |
| 0:29.0 | Are you secretly a little worried that a robot might be coming to take your job? I mean, you could be listening to a robot right now, |
| 0:32.0 | and you wouldn't even know. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm joking. |
| 0:34.5 | But there are actually many British industries that could really do with the help of robots. |
| 0:41.2 | And the Intelligence's resident Canadian tells us why the world just can't get enough of maple syrup. |
| 0:48.0 | Fair enough, the stuff is good. |
| 0:50.0 | There's more in production, but unfortunately, it's showing no signs of getting any cheaper. |
| 1:02.0 | First up there. |
| 1:15.0 | there. It's early morning in Myanmar. It's early morning in Myanmar. I have traveled deep into the jungles of Kerene State and in front of me on a dusty field |
| 1:31.0 | about 40 young men and women sing as they watch the Kerene see |
| 1:33.5 | as they watched the Kereny flag rise. |
| 1:36.0 | We're not naming our correspondent for her safety. |
| 1:41.0 | Myanmar has been experiencing a civil uprising for three years since the junta over through the government. |
| 1:49.0 | Kaya, also known as Kereny State in eastern Myanmar, is rugged and landlocked, with a small population of just 300,000. |
| 2:00.0 | Yet they are used to war. |
| 2:04.0 | It's been going on here in some form since |
| 2:09.0 | nineteen 47. |
| 2:10.0 | The recruits I'm watching are led by the commander of the Kereny army. |
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