Drum Tower from The Economist
Episodes
Trailer: Drum Tower
26 Nov 2025
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Gain a deeper understanding of China with Jeremy Page and Sarah Wu. The Economist’s China correspondents report from across the country and the plac...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
29 Apr 2025
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Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist’s management columnist, Andrew Palmer, is here ...
Trailer: Scam Inc
28 Jan 2025
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A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. And it’...
Climbers (part one): A way out of China
08 Oct 2024
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Necoclí is a tiny town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Beach bars blast party music and sell brightly-coloured cocktails. But Necoclí is not just a...
Trailer: The Modi Raj
05 Jun 2024
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Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyeing a third term atop the world’s biggest democra...
Run part one: Why are Chinese people running to Japan?
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of China’s zero-covid restrictions, a Chinese character that sounds like the English word “run” became a coded way of talking abou...
Drum Tower: Xi’s doomed economic plan
09 Apr 2024
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The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes was recently in Beijing for the China Development Forum, an annual gathering where senior Chine...
Drum Tower: Tick tock for TikTok
26 Mar 2024
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On March 13th America’s House of Representatives passed a bill that could ban TikTok nationwide unless its Chinese owner, Bytedance, agrees to sell ...
Drum Tower: The sounds of old Beijing
13 Feb 2024
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In some ways, Beijing now sounds like a lot of other mega cities. Yet, back in imperial times, sound was used in creative ways to display wealth, to c...
Drum Tower: Competing for kids
30 Jan 2024
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China’s decades-long economic boom was powered by workers who migrated from the countryside to cities to find jobs. But to do so, many of them had t...
Drum Tower: Taiwan goes to the polls
09 Jan 2024
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China is watching Taiwan’s next presidential race closely. The results will influence Xi Jinping’s next steps when it comes to resolving the “Ta...
Drum Tower: Stand-up feminists
05 Dec 2023
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Tickets for “Nvzizhuyi”—a monthly stand-up comedy show in New York City— often sell out in less than a minute. The show invites Chinese citize...
Drum Tower: What does it mean to be Taiwanese?
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many have worried: is Taiwan next? China is giving Taiwan a terrifying choice: unify with China, or face war. Pe...
Introducing Drum Tower
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two of The Economist's China correspondents, Alice Su and David Rennie, analyse the stories at the heart of this vast country and examine its influenc...