The Intelligence: The CCP would like chips with that
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
China’s flip-flopping on video-game regulation reveals a messy message: leaders want to encourage “hard tech” such as chips and AI over the consumer kind—without sparking another costly crackdown. We ask Mark Carney, a former central-bank governor, whether he has ambitions to lead Canada (09:16). And why so many social-media types want to share their diaries online (18:19).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
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| 1:01.9 | apply. The Economist. Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm O'Ogra Ogunbei. |
| 1:17.6 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:19.1 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:26.8 | He'd be no conventional politician. In fact, he insists that politics is best avoided. |
| 1:33.4 | But a man who has been a central banker across two countries is rumoured to be eyeing up |
| 1:38.4 | Canada's top spot. We ask Mark Carney about his intentions to run for Prime Minister. |
| 1:45.6 | And the idea of teenagers reading out their diaries on TikTok seems to entirely undermine what |
| 1:52.0 | diaries are supposed to be for. But there's a long history of these private musings being made |
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