Run part two: How political is China’s “run” phenomenon‪?‬ Economist Podcasts

    • News

Listen on Apple Podcasts
Requires subscription and macOS 11.4 or higher

Fed up with a system they feel has let them down, blue-collar Chinese workers are moving to Japan. And they have bleak views about the society they’ve left behind.

In the second episode of our series on why Chinese people are leaving their country, Alice Su, The Economist’s senior China correspondent and David Rennie, our Beijing bureau chief, ask: how political is the “run” phenomenon?

Transcripts of our podcasts are available via economist.com/podcasts.

Get a world of insights for 50% off—subscribe to Economist Podcasts+

For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account.

Fed up with a system they feel has let them down, blue-collar Chinese workers are moving to Japan. And they have bleak views about the society they’ve left behind.

In the second episode of our series on why Chinese people are leaving their country, Alice Su, The Economist’s senior China correspondent and David Rennie, our Beijing bureau chief, ask: how political is the “run” phenomenon?

Transcripts of our podcasts are available via economist.com/podcasts.

Get a world of insights for 50% off—subscribe to Economist Podcasts+

For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account.

Top Podcasts In News

Global News Podcast
BBC World Service
The Rest Is Politics
Goalhanger Podcasts
EU Confidential
POLITICO
Deejay Chiama Italia
Radio Deejay
FT News Briefing
Financial Times
The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson Network

More by The Economist

The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
The World in Brief from The Economist
The Economist
Economist Podcasts
The Economist
Money Talks from The Economist
The Economist
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
The Economist Asks
The Economist