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Four Corners: July 1

US-based journalist Kaiser Kuo investigates what drives China's bid for technological supremacy.

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Monday’s Four Corners story “Inside China’s Tech Boom” is produced by America’s PBS.

From solar power to 5G, China has transformed into a science and technology superpower in just a few decades — but how exactly does China innovate?

This documentary, from the American public broadcaster PBS, gets rare access inside the companies, labs and factories that are driving China’s meteoric rise to the forefront of global innovation, including tech giant Huawei.

As a tech war between China and the West heats up, US-based journalist and podcaster Kaiser Kuo — who spent 20 years in China — investigates what drives its bid for technological supremacy, and what it means for the future of the global economy.

8.30pm on Monday 1 July on ABC.

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  1. I appreciate networks, such as, the ABC and SBS broadcasting these OS doco’s and the like but why do we Aussies have to be short-changed all the time.

    This NOVA episode, broadcast last year, goes for 54mins but the ABC has it listed as 46 mins. Why?

    I accept that networks might need to cut the broadcast version to fit a timeslot but there’s no such requirement for what’s uploaded to their catch-up service, in this case, iView.

    Four Corners recently broadcast a PBS Frontline episode that was also cut by 15 mins.

      1. I find that very odd that PBS would do the cutting just so that it would fit the “45 min” Four Corners timeslot. Particularly, if you are correct that the ABC are not happy. It would make more logical sense that the ABC is doing the cutting to fit the timeslot. When SBS broadcast either Frontline or NOVA episodes they are not cut down.

        Irrespective of who’s doing the cutting we viewers are being treated very poorly (I’m being polite here).

        BBC Studios or the ABC cut 8 mins from every episode of The Last Leg. Back in 2023 Adam & co. did a comedy sketch in the episode that followed Bairstows’ stumping. That entire sketch was cut from the Aussie version. Now who at the BBC or the ABC would not think that we Aussies would not be interested in watching that. Really. In this particular show there is various other segments that could be cut given they have no relevance outside of the UK.

        1. A consistent cut of 8 minutes in The Last Leg will be the BBC cutting a 58m show down to the 50m standard for international distribution. But the ABC could ask for the 58m version. Cuts to shows in the 4 Corners slot are to keep Media Watch in it’s regular earlier slots, and have their sports panel show start as HYPA? finishes. Once that have a file they just broadcast and post that file on iView. It also conceals the editing.

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