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Keep your friends close: Pakistan’s shifting role

The Intelligence from The Economist
The Intelligence from The Economist
Episode • Oct 13, 2021 • 21m

As the Taliban’s closest ally, the country bears a big responsibility for Afghanistan’s fate. We examine its diplomatic risks and opportunities. Mastercard is pressing porn purveyors this week; we look at how financial companies are reluctantly stepping up as the internet’s police. And a timely social-inequality take drives South Korea’s “Squid Game” to the top of Netflix's charts worldwide.

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