The Intelligence: Surveilling China’s diaspora
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
There are fears about TikTok, but it’s not the only social media platform that the Chinese state might be using to monitor the rest of the world. That’s especially worrying for those in its diaspora who thought they were free. How monopolies are transforming America’s skiing industry (08:59). And just how much stuff are museums sitting on (15:37)?
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| 0:59.0 | The Economist. |
| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:10.4 | And I'm Oire Ogunbe. |
| 1:12.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:20.6 | Only through the most fearless and intrepid reporting did our correspondent discover a valuable economics lesson in modern-day America. |
| 1:29.0 | We find the intersection of industry consolidation and price discrimination on the country's ski slopes. |
| 1:36.7 | And many of the world's biggest museums have more items in their basements than they do on display. |
| 1:43.5 | The British Museum only actually exhibits 1% of what it's got. |
| 1:49.0 | Our correspondent looks at plans to change that. |
| 1:56.0 | First up, though, |
| 1:59.0 | Yuzhouxie! First up, though. |
| 2:12.6 | So in November 2020, Discontent was brewing in China. People had endured two years of pandemic restrictions, |
| 2:15.6 | and there'd been these huge lockdowns in giant cities |
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