The Pandemic and Human Loomo

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The 26th of November was a huge, really unusual news day for China. We had very rare protests on a university campus in the city of Nanjing. That evening there were protests in Shanghai which turned political. And human limbo opened with a segment on equipment manufacturing. The aim is to be reassuring and soothing and to make you proud of China.

The enforcers of the hardliners’ mores may have been disbanded; it is hard to know if the regime is bending to protesters or sowing confusion. Either way the disquiet looks set to continue. We take a look at China’s widely watched nightly news and the narrative it hopes to promulgate. And why women are suddenly flooding into America’s funeral-services industry. Help us make the show better: take our listener survey at http://economist.com/intelligencesurvey For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer