The Intelligence: Independents’ day
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Taiwan’s election of William Lai Ching-te of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party is sure to annoy leaders in Beijing; we ask what to expect next. Britain’s Post Office scandal simmered for two decades before a television series made it boil over (10:14). And what happens when climate change makes it too hot to work (17:44).
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| 0:45.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm Ora O'Gumbi. |
| 0:49.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:57.0 | In Britain a television series has at last got the public interested in a miscarriage of justice that carried on for two decades. |
| 1:05.5 | What happened in the country's Postal Service is a lesson in part in trusting new technology |
| 1:10.5 | too much. |
| 1:17.0 | And, as someone who much prefers to work from a sunny beach, it pains me to share that hot weather is making many jobs harder. |
| 1:22.0 | And that's bad news for a warming world. But first. Taiwan has elected a new president and the result is not going to please leaders in mainland China. |
| 1:54.0 | William Lai Chingde of the Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, the current ruling party, will take office in May. |
| 2:01.0 | Taiwan Kowsu, Chunzwe, and in Tewin Chunzijan. |
| 2:07.6 | In his victory speech, Mr. Lai said Taiwan was telling the whole world that between |
| 2:12.4 | democracy and authoritarianism they had chosen to stand |
| 2:15.8 | on the side of democracy. |
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