Wednesday 21 June

Rebecca Tinsley and Charles Hecker on Joe Biden’s threat to the US-China detente by calling Xi Jinping a ‘dictator’, the end of a three-day ceasefire in Sudan’s capital and why a UN expert urges a different approach to resolve the crisis in Myanmar. Plus: why British five-year-olds are up to 7cm shorter than their Western peers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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