With a grain assault: a deal abandoned
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Russia’s axeing of the Black Sea grain deal reveals a war machine running out of options. We explore how to get the deal back on track. A month-long mystery surrounding China’s absent foreign minister has grown deeper: now his memory is being scrubbed from official websites (10:15). And literary criticism has lost its claws—gaining a newfound civility that is bad for readers (16:37).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
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| 1:01.4 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:04.8 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:06.7 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.6 | A small mystery in Beijing has turned into a big one. |
| 1:18.6 | A month ago, China's foreign ministry cleared the diary of the foreign minister, citing ill health. |
| 1:24.6 | Now, he's been sacked and replaced, |
| 1:30.2 | and the party is clearing his whole history from the web. |
| 1:36.0 | And literary critics these days just seem to be a little bit nicer. |
| 1:40.8 | Gone are the savage reviews calling authors tiresome or idiots. |
| 1:45.2 | Our correspondent looks into the coded language that's now in use and why reviews have become so civil. |
| 1:53.4 | First up though, |
| 1:58.7 | today the Russia-Africa summit kicked off in St. Petersburg. |
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