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Apr 2023
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Why Chinese migrants are arriving at the...

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About this episode

This special weekend episode is all about China.

Meet the new migrants making the arduous trek over the Mexico-U.S. border. We talk with those who have left China and find out how they arrived on the Darien Gap.

Plus a hot new trend seizes the young and unemployed – Buddhist devotion. But is it religious resurgence, or a novel way to find a job?

Plus we find out how Beijing is responding to a declining birth rate by easing restrictions on single women.


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