Tony isn’t blinkin’: Sino-American relations, post-balloon
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
American fighters shot down a balloon that China says was monitoring the weather, but America insists was spying. It was a minor incident, but it highlights the relationship of a great-power rivalry with inadequate guardrails. Our correspondent visits a market in Mumbai to see what might be lost as India’s economy formalises. And some surprising—and worrying—data puncturing the myth about the skinny French.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:06.6 | In New York, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:09.0 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:11.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:14.3 | shaping your world. |
| 0:18.4 | Informal labor has long made up a large share of India's economy, |
| 0:22.4 | shaping how the country shops, looks, and sounds. |
| 0:26.2 | But that's changing pretty quickly. |
| 0:28.5 | Our correspondent visits a market in Mumbai |
| 0:31.1 | to see it disappearing India. |
| 0:34.8 | And one stereotype about the French |
| 0:37.3 | is that they're effortlessly slim with hot kuchur draped |
| 0:41.2 | across live frames. |
| 0:43.2 | We look at some obesity statistics that |
| 0:45.3 | show the reality is different and getting more so all the time. |
| 0:49.0 | But first, this weekend, South Carolinians were treated to an air show, |
| 1:07.4 | unlike any scene before in the Palmetto state. |
| 1:11.0 | On a sunny Saturday in Myrtle Beach, locals |
| 1:13.6 | watched as two US fighter jets bore down on a high altitude balloon. |
| 1:18.0 | We probably watched it. |
| 1:19.2 | I don't know, maybe about five minutes. |
| 1:20.8 | And then started seeing some jet trails coming from the west. |
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