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This week, we\\u2019re off to China. Now the U.S. bureau chief for the South China Morning Post, Robert Delaney spent many years as a foreign correspondent reporting from the world\\u2019s most populous country.

He now has a novel out: The Wounded Muse, based on real events that played out in Beijing as the 2008 Olympic Games approached. He spoke to us about how China, its economy and its cities have changed over the past two decades.

This episode we also go back to the Centre for Cities\\u2019 Paul Swinney to ask another big question. If agglomeration \\u2013 being able to get more people to more jobs \\u2013 is the key to economic success could lack of good transport be the thing that\\u2019s holding England\\u2019s cities back?

Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman\\u2019s cities site, CityMetric. It\\u2019s hosted by Jonn Elledge and produced by Nick Hilton.

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