State of Mankind

Hypersonic weapons, explained; North Korean prison-break video goes viral | China in Focus



What’s all the buzz about Beijing’s hypersonic weapons, and why could they pose a nuclear threat to the United States? We break it down in this episode. A 12-year-old girl died after getting a shot of a Chinese-made vaccine. Her mother asked authorities for an investigation into the case, only to be beaten and detained. Chinese journalists must undergo so-called “continuous education” by the state—at least 90 hours every year—to learn how to develop news with a Marxist angle. China has a real-life version of the U.S. crime drama “Prison Break.” Footage of an agile North Korean’s jailbreak in China is going viral. Taiwanese businesses are leaving China, and experts say a bigger wave of retreat is on the way.