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Sep 2021
10m 57s

China’s digital dictatorship

Financial Times
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https://www.ft.com/content/efcae358-e439-4135-9600-55b23dcd7dc8


Australia’s nuclear submarine deal with the US and UK is set to provide a political boost for Scott Morrison’s conservative government, and UK business and energy secretary Kwasi Kwarteng is due to meet energy suppliers on Monday amid fears that dozens of companies could go bust in the coming weeks due to record high gas and electricity prices, and Beijing has pushed through reams of regulations and policies designed to shore up China’s data security, reinforcing the control it exercises over huge volumes of data used in governing the country, boosting the economy and ordering people’s lives.


Australia and France intensify war of words over cancelled submarine deal

https://www.ft.com/content/55173c4e-79a4-4a65-8294-3fc666026a0b


Morrison’s submarine deal drives wedge between Australian opposition

https://www.ft.com/content/e7e40eae-0011-4d0a-8a59-b5d5625c7389


UK energy groups ask for government ‘bad bank’ to weather gas crisis - with David Sheppard 

https://www.ft.com/content/684e4ef1-87a9-4bdf-96f4-956df4e0a1e2


China and Big Tech: Xi’s blueprint for a digital dictatorship - with James Kynge 

https://www.ft.com/content/9ef38be2-9b4d-49a4-a812-97ad6d70ea6f


The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon and Marc Filippino. The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Gavin Kallmann, Michael Bruning, and Persis Love. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. 



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