{"id":218801,"date":"2025-10-22T21:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218801\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:48:10","slug":"newshour-is-chinas-social-contract-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/218801\/","title":{"rendered":"Newshour – Is China\u2019s social contract under pressure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Available for 29 days<\/p>\n

China’s ruling Communist party is meeting to discuss the country’s economic plans, at a time of international uncertainty. The party has a grand bargain with its citizens \u2014 people will accept one party rule and restrictions on freedoms in exchange for a better life, but, is that bargain no longer so secure? <\/p>\n

Also in the programme: an international force has seized illegal drugs worth an estimated billion dollars in the Arabian Sea, is the Gulf region becoming a major market? And the EU\u2019s top human right prize goes to two imprisoned journalists.<\/p>\n

(Image: Delegates in the Great Hall of the People. Credit: Reuters)<\/p>\n

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