The Intelligence: If Beijing had a ballot
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🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Some within China might prefer another Donald Trump presidency while others might favour Joe Biden. On balance, though: from there, neither option looks great. We look at the steps toward the first drug in four decades to treat the debilitating disease of endometriosis (9:28). And as the word podcasting turns 20 we reflect on a medium close to our hearts (17:51).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
| 0:04.6 | Apparently we're more productive at work after a good holiday. |
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| 1:00.8 | The Economist |
| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:11.1 | I'm Oire Ogunbei. |
| 1:12.6 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:14.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:22.6 | Endometriosis is a debilitating condition where tissue from the uterus grows where it shouldn't. It's as common as |
| 1:29.2 | diabetes, but research on its treatment is comparatively much further behind. But a new study could be |
| 1:36.1 | about to change that. And it's been 20 years since the coining of the word podcast. We explore two decades of a famously intimate medium and revisit its breakout hit. |
| 1:49.6 | And then, more recently we hear, the industry's story took a dark turn. |
| 1:59.4 | First up, though. |
| 2:13.6 | Music First up, though. America's presidential primary season has, in past election cycles, had some real excitement to it, a winnowing of worthy candidates to the two who will face off in November. |
| 2:18.3 | This one, by now, not so much. |
| 2:21.3 | In the state of Michigan yesterday, Donald Trump and President Joe Biden easily won their respective party's nominations, |
| 2:28.3 | though Mr. Biden's margin was reduced by tens of thousands of people who voted as uncommitted, a protest vote against |
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