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The Intelligence from The Economist

The Intelligence: If Beijing had a ballot

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

News, Global News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 26 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

The Economist.

0:10.0

Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer.

0:15.0

I'm Jason Palmer.

0:16.3

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

0:21.1

Ending you. your world.

0:30.0

Endometriosis is a debilitating condition where tissue from the uterus grows where it shouldn't. It's as common as diabetes, but research on its treatment is comparatively much further behind.

0:36.0

But a new study could be about to change that.

0:40.0

And it's been 20 years since the coining of the word podcast.

0:46.0

We explore two decades of a famously intimate medium and revisit its breakout hit.

0:52.0

And then, more recently, we hear the industry story took a dark turn.

1:00.0

First up, though.

1:03.0

America's presidential primary season has in past election cycles had some real excitement to it,

1:15.8

a winnowing of worthy candidates to the two who will face off in November.

1:20.8

This one, by now, eh, not so much. In the state of Michigan yesterday, Donald Trump and President

1:26.8

Joe Biden easily won their respective party's nominations, though Mr Biden's margin was

1:32.2

reduced by tens of thousands of people who voted as

1:35.2

uncommitted a protest vote against his handling of the war in Gaza. As zipped up as

1:41.6

the election head-to-head seems to be though, there are still plenty of people who tune in each day of this long election season.

1:49.0

Not least in China. What you can hear there is a repetition, don't don't don't, don't, don't,

1:57.0

Donald Trump.

2:00.0

What you can hear there is a repetition of the word dong dong dong dong dong dong in Chinese and it's a reference to the name for Donald Trump that's often used online.

2:16.0

King know it all because Donald Trump often says that he knows more than anyone else about almost everything.

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