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Umbrellas to firebombs: Hong Kong’s escalating protests

Umbrellas to firebombs: Hong Kong’s escalating protests

FromThe Intelligence from The Economist


Umbrellas to firebombs: Hong Kong’s escalating protests

FromThe Intelligence from The Economist

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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Nov 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Molotov cocktails are flying and live rounds have been fired. Once-peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations are transforming into violent confrontations—and neither side seems willing to back down. The agricultural revolution that has swept much of the world has still not reached much of Africa; we look into the seeds of the problem. And why Colombia has a growing difficulty with a druglord’s hippos.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/radiooffer For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Nov 13, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Get a daily burst of global illumination from The Economist’s worldwide network of correspondents as they dig past the headlines to get to the stories beneath—and to stories that aren’t making headlines, but should be.