This podcast was recorded from the midst of the Brexit omni-shambles. Katy Balls talks to Tim Montgomerie, Sienna Rodgers, and James Forsyth on the latest. But first, something just as monumental is happening on the other side of the world. Watch this:
Here's a dystopian vision of the future: A real announcement I recorded on the Beijing-Shanghai bullet train. (I've subtitled it so you can watch in silence.) pic.twitter.com/ZoRWtdcSMy
— James O'Malley (@Psythor) October 29, 2018
That was the announcement that technology journalist James O’Malley heard when he travelling on a high-speed rail train from Beijing to Shanghai earlier this year. It is just the tip of a social credit ice berg, James writes in this week’s cover piece. The Chinese government is working to create a system of scoring its citizens on their behaviours. James joins the podcast, together with me, Cindy Yu, in my capacity as a China commentator.
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