Variable-fate mortgage: China’s protests
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Property developers are going belly-up, home-buyers are not paying mortgages, protests after a banking scandal have been quashed. We ask about the instability still to come. Ukraine’s new HIMARS rocket launchers are proving exceedingly effective against Russian forces. And a look at Britain’s world-leading collection of diseases-in-a-dish.
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| 1:11.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:17.5 | Since the start of Russia's invasion, Ukraine has been pleading for more artillery. |
| 1:23.1 | But few weapons have been as effective as American-supplied High Mars rocket launchers. We look at the |
| 1:29.3 | precision missiles that are changing how the war is fought. And here's a riddle. Where can you find |
| 1:36.8 | smallpox, herpes, dysentery, Dutch elm disease, and a bit of influenza from Alexander Fleming's nose. |
| 1:46.1 | No, it's not in the world's most disgusting bus station loo, |
| 1:49.5 | but in some of Britain's most important collections. |
| 1:55.7 | First up, though. |
| 2:03.2 | Protests are not uncommon in China, but when they do crop up, the country's vast security |
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