Skin in the Games: Beijing’s nervy Olympics

The Economist Podcasts

• Episode: Skin in the Games: Beijing’s nervy Olympics
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• Duration: 00:25:32
• Published: 2022-02-04 12:27

Our correspondent describes the fraught effort to attend the opening ceremony. It is a pageant highlighting a divided world, with party leaders aiming for zero covid, zero mistakes and zero dissent. An investigation reveals the brutal treatment meted out by Libya’s coast guard dealing with Europe-bound migrants—an outfit bankrolled by the European Union itself. And America’s gun-owners become surprisingly diverse.

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