2025-04-17
24 分钟Hello, and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Bloor, and I'm Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
The deaths of migrants travelling on unsafe ships is one of the tragedies of our age.
Our correspondent explores one of the gruesome side effects of this sad story,
the pile-up of bodies in Spanish morgues along the sea routes.
And at a time when the video game industry pulls in more than the movie industry does,
you'd be forgiven for thinking pinball had been consigned to history.
Our correspondent finds that it's not only hanging on, it's enjoying a revival.
But first... One thing about wars is that they reveal what each side perceives as the other's vulnerability.
Russia strikes at Ukraine's energy infrastructure.
Israel crimps the flow of aid to Gaza.
Now that tariff threats have become tariffs, have become a trade war,
the pain points between China and America are becoming clearer.
As the American market for Chinese goods is being choked off,
President Xi Jinping is touring Southeast Asia, making nice with trading partners.
China and Malaysia will stand with countries in the region, he said.
He's also making overtures to the European Union.
Smoothing and expanding trade networks will help China, but what will hurt America?
The export controls imposed this week on rare earths, for one thing.