Out like a Lam: Hong Kong’s new leader

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John Lee, the successor to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, won by a <a href="https://www.economist.com/news/2022/05/06/why-the-power-of-hong-kongs-chief-executives-is-waning?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anon ...

The Chinese leader who took over a squabbling party following the Tiananmen Square massacre <a href="https://www.economist.com/obituary/2022/11/30/jiang-zemin-oversaw-a-wave-of-economic-change-but-not-much-political-reform?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_sour ...

He made the same <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/25/joe-biden-fires-the-starting-gun-on-the-presidential-race?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term ...