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World Service,03 Dec 2022,26 mins
How will the Communist Party deal with protests in China?
Unspun World with John SimpsonAvailable for over a year
This week John Simpson speaks to: BBC Monitoring's China analyst, Kerry Allen, on what the surge in protests in China means for the ruling Communist Party; defence correspondent, Jonny Beale, on what victory in Ukraine might look like for NATO members; Middle East correspondent, Anna Foster, on what Turkey's potential invasion of Northern Syria means for international relations and Pooria Jafereh, BBC Persian sports journalist, on the impact of Iran's football on and off the pitch at the World Cup in Qatar. Unspun World provides a look behind the headlines of some of the world's most important stories with the BBC's World Affairs editor, John Simpson, and the BBC's wide range of experts across the globe. (Photo: Solidarity protest in Tokyo against COVID-19 lockdowns in China. Credit: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)
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