Black Boxes (part two)

In his first six months at the Dahongmen detention centre, Michael Kovrig was in solitary confinement. The former Canadian diplomat quickly realised that survival demanded a strict physical and mental regime. He would need it. 1,019 days passed before the political game that put Mr Kovrig in Dahongmen was resolved.

On the Weekend Intelligence, we bring you the second episode in a two-part series from Drum Tower, our weekly podcast on China. David Rennie, The Economist’s geopolitics editor, speaks with Mr Kovrig about how he survived inside a machine designed to crush the human spirit.