China’s Big Question: Citizen control or population control?

China’s ruling party has been backed into an internal battle as unmarried women there clamour to have their eggs frozen, a practice that’s currently banned. But the population continues to drop at a dangerous pace because of a massive decrease in the birth rate. Which is more important to Xi Jinping: Control of the people? Or control of the population?

Also: Tiktok is launching a feature aimed at reducing the amount of time children spent consuming its videos - but is it mere platitudes for a company trying to hide its more sinister goals?

Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd singer, is being cancelled in Poland and Germany because he's a massive antisemite (by his own admission)

And Wimbledon fears a leading royal could become the face of Russian propaganda if it backs away from its ban on Russian players taking part there this Summer

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