2025-10-10
19 分钟The Economist.
Hello, and welcome to The Intelligence from the Economist.
I'm your host, Rosie Blore.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Given its location,
it's pretty obvious why Finland has carved out a niche in designing and building ice breakers.
But as competition for the Arctic grows, so does demand for these ships.
No joke.
And in 2019, a star basketball player wrote a tweet that annoyed the Chinese Communist Party.
The result was that the entire league was banned from China.
Tonight, for the first time in six years, an NBA game is finally being played on Chinese soil again.
First up, though, In 1983, a small team published a series of groundbreaking video games,
including Archon, The Light and the Dark, a combat game that's a bit like chess.
Over 40 years later, the computer geeks who billed themselves as electronic artists are better known as the company EA.
EA Sports. It's in the game.
EA is one of America's largest gaming brands.
But now that video game firm has been co-opted for an even bolder mission.
It's part of a bid to dominate the entire gaming industry.
Electronic Arts, which is America's third biggest gaming company,
is being bought for $55 billion in a group being led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.