2025-10-22
24 分钟The Economist Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host Rosie Bloor.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Is something rotten in the state of Chinese business?
Bosses of companies keep disappearing into a form of extra-judicial prison.
To get rich is no longer glorious, apparently.
Our correspondent explains whether the government has a method in this apparent madness.
And last weekend, thieves stole water effectively the crown jewels of France from the Louvre,
the world's most popular museum, one of the most audacious robberies in history.
Will they get those jewels back?
But first.
Last week, American missiles blew up a boat in the Caribbean.
It was said to be carrying substantial amounts of narcotics.
That was the seventh such recent attack,
as Donald Trump has stepped up America's decades-long war on illegal drugs.
Using the template of the war on terror,
the administration is waging a campaign of unprecedented violence against traffickers.
But though burning boats makes for shocking video footage,
raining hellfire from the sky may have little effect on the international narcotics trade.
In the last 15 years, the illegal drug business has really been revolutionised.