Wonking Week: Detain and Passover

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei, and Idea Lobby author Emily Badger looks at a proposal for cybersecurity.

Ai Weiwei made headlines after the well-known artist and critic of China’s authoritarianism was arrested by Chinese authorities on a host of ugly charges, a suspicious arrest given the country’s palpable fear of a jasmine-type resolution. Miller-McCune’s Jessica Hilo and Tom Jacobs discuss the case and the changes occurring in China. In addition, Emily Badger expounds on her Idea Lobby column on a government-run ID for cybersecurity.

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Audio portions for this week’s Wonking Week podcast were drawn from:

– The outro to our discussion on Ai Weiwei was taken from an interview he had with Bloomberg.

– The outro to the interview with Emily Badger was Securityby Otis Redding.

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