Thursday 10 August

West African leaders meet after the military junta in Niger refuses to reinstall President Bazoum. In the studio, Charles Hecker and Marta Lorimer discuss new US curbs on Chinese tech, hardline European rhetoric on immigration and a Belgian university’s new Taylor Swift literature course.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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