RFA Insider #16: Putin loves North Korea, Taiwan's '10%', supercars in Cambodia, Kanye's China concert

09/27/24 • 42 min

This episode of RFA Insider is a practice run in "live to tape" format, indicating that we will in the future do a livestreamed episode.

*The Rundown*

North Korean lectures tell the people that Vladimir Putin loves Kim Jong Un more than others. Meanwhile the people are getting sick of a propaganda song singing his praises

The AFCL checks into Chinese businessman Victor Gao's claim that 10% of Taiwan's population is descended from Japanese who lived there when it was a colony

The Gumball 3,000 supercar rally runs through five Southeast Asian countries, including a leg through Cambodia and Ankor Wat.

Kanye West performs in Hainan, China, which is suprising becaue the Chinese government is not often welcoming to Western artists

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This episode of RFA Insider is a practice run in "live to tape" format, indicating that we will in the future do a livestreamed episode.

*The Rundown*

North Korean lectures tell the people that Vladimir Putin loves Kim Jong Un more than others. Meanwhile the people are getting sick of a propaganda song singing his praises

The AFCL checks into Chinese businessman Victor Gao's claim that 10% of Taiwan's population is descended from Japanese who lived there when it was a colony

The Gumball 3,000 supercar rally runs through five Southeast Asian countries, including a leg through Cambodia and Ankor Wat.

Kanye West performs in Hainan, China, which is suprising becaue the Chinese government is not often welcoming to Western artists

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

RFA Insider #15: Cambodia's Hun Sen, Tibet's caterpillar fungus, Laos jails for jokes

*Off Beat*

Discussing Cambodian strongman Hun Sen with Vuthy Huot and Poly Sam from RFA Khmer

*Podcast Free Asia*

The other RFA Podcast, Master of Deceit, is about Wang Shujun, a New Yorker convicted of spying for China, not about those other three New Yorkers arrested for or convicted of spying for China.

*The Rundown*

Caterpillar fungus trade affected by climate change, over harvesting, and counterfeits

Lao video editors get in trouble for editing videos of roads with potholes

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Next Episode

RFA Insider #17: 10 years in Hong Kong: from Umbrella Movement to Article 23

*Off Beat*

Kelis Wong from RFA Cantonese discusses the past 10 years in Hong Kong, and how protests in 2014, known as the Umbrella Movement or Occupy Central, led into subsequent protests in 2019 over an extradition law and then again in 2024 over the passage of Article 23.

*The Rundown*

North Koreans get punished for not saving portraits of their previous leaders as they escaped from their flooded homes.

A museum in France removed the word "Tibet" from exhibitions in favor of the Chinese name of the region, "Xizang."

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