The Intelligence: Is time up for TikTok?
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The US Congress is refusing to scroll past the app’s links to China. If the bill they passed becomes law, the video-sharing network will be forced to find new owners. Binyamin Netanyahu’s emergency war-time budget has just been approved. What is the cost of Israel’s ongoing war (10:40)? And, snapping up Old Masters in Maastricht (18:14).
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| 1:18.6 | Between October 7th and the end of 2023, Israel's war in Gaza cost it an extra $8 billion. |
| 1:29.3 | That war looks set to continue and the funding for it is going to have to come from somewhere. |
| 1:34.3 | The somewhere looks like the welfare state. |
| 1:37.3 | And our culture editor takes us to Maastricht to visit one of the last art fairs to focus on old masters by long-dead Europeans. |
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