Georgia undermined: protests and a hunger strike

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<p>Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president, is seven weeks into a hunger strike and protests supporting him are proliferating. We ask where the country is headed. China’s state-sponsored industrial espionage is growing <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2021/11/11/china-still-steals-commercial-secrets-for-its-own-firms-profit?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">more overt and more organised</a>—and little can be done to stop it. And how to figure out the <a href="https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/11/13/green-lit-or-greenlighted-gaslighted-or-gaslit?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=third-party-host&utm_content=show-notes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">past tense</a> of verbs like “green-light” and “gaslight”.</p><p>For full access to print, digital and audio editions of <em>The Economist</em>, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a></p> <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>