Get your Strait facts: China's quiet Taiwan push

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Bloor.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  Lucy Letby is notorious.

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  The former British nurse was found guilty of murdering seven babies in hospital and trying to kill six more.

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  But there are increasing questions about the case against her and about Britain's criminal justice system.

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  And football is just a wash with money.

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  Players are brands, clubs are merchandising powerhouses,

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  salaries are, well, salaries are largely secret.

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  But what seems clear is that top footballers aren't getting as big a slice of the pie

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  as they once did.

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  First up though.

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  In the burn it all down push going on inside America's government right now,

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  stuff is constantly getting removed from government websites.

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  But on the State Department's fact sheet about American relations with Taiwan,

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  there was a change that really, really irked China this week.

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  Suddenly gone was the wording that said we do not support Taiwan independence.

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  Just like what we heard yesterday about American positions advertised at the Munich Security Conference,

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