News Meeting: Biden’s man visits Beijing, sextortion and Telegram’s CEO is arrested

New York Times diplomatic correspondent Edward Wong joins the Tortoise team to discuss what should lead the news.

He explains why US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met Chinese president Xi Jinping this week. 

They also discuss why France’s investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov matters and the sentencing of an Australian man responsible for one of the worst sextortion cases in history.

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Guests:

• Edward Wong, diplomatic correspondent at the New York Times and author of ‘At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China’
• Claudia Williams, reporter at Tortoise and host of the Slow Newscast
• Jess Winch, news editor at Tortoise

Host: Giles Whittell, deputy editor at Tortoise

Executive producer: Lewis Vickers

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