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The 2022 Winter Olympics have kicked off in Beijing. Meanwhile, in the northwestern Xinjiang region of China, the government is implementing policies that many human rights organizations and foreign governments have determined amount to crimes against humanity and even genocide against the Uyghur people. The juxtaposition of this internationally celebrated Olympics in the midst of an ongoing human rights calamity is what drives our conversation today, with four different speakers. Rushan Abbas is the founder and executive director of the campaign for Uyghurs Teng Biao is a Chinese human rights lawyer and the Pozen Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. Yaqiu Wang is the senior china researcher for human rights watch Sean Roberts is a professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University and author of the book The War on the Uyghurs. We recorded our conversation live on Twitter Spaces just before the opening ceremony.
On January 31, the United Nations Security Council held a meeting about Russia's military buildup on the border of Ukraine. Here to help understand what happened at this meeting and any potentially significant outcomes is Ashish Pradhan, who covers Security Council affairs for the International Crisis Group.
We kick off discussing this procedural vote before having a broader conversation about the international and geopolitical dynamics informing diplomacy around this crisis.
North Korea has already launched more than six missile tests since the start of the new year.
Why is North Korea is suddenly launching so many new missile tests -- and what can be done about? Three experts weigh in:
Jeffrey Lewis is a Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterrey and an open source researcher at the James Martin Center for non proliferation studies
Ankit Panda is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Michelle Kae is the Deputy Director of the 38 North Program at the Stimson Center
On Monday January 24th, mutineers in Burkina Faso overthrew the democratically elected president, Roch Kabore.
This was the fourth military coup in the region in the past 17th months, including two coups in Mali and a coup in Guinea.
To better understand the significance of the coup in Burkina Faso and its broader international and humanitarian implications, I am joined by three guests.
Brice Bado is a political scientist and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Center for Research and Action for Peace (CERAP)/Jesuit University, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
Andrew Lebovich a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Alexandra Lamarche, the senior advocate for West and Central Africa at Refugees International.
After nearly eight years, the conflict in Yemen is getting worse.
Scott Paul, the senior manager for humanitarian policy at Oxfam America, explains the significance of a recent attack in Abu Dhabi and the latest bombardment of Yemen's capital before having a broader discussion about the trajectory and impact of this years long crisis.
The likelihood that Russia will invade Ukraine seems to be growing by the day. If Russia indeed attacks Ukraine, how should the United States and Europe respond? Joining me to take on that question and more are four excellent speakers: Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Nina Jankowicz the Woodrow Wilson Center Jim Goldgeier of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Melinda Haring of The Atlantic Council Recorded live via Twitter Spaces. Follow me @MarkLGoldberg to be notified of the next live taping.
Hong Kong used to have one of the most vibrant media ecosystems in all of Asia. But not today.
There is an ongoing crackdown on independent media in Hong Kong. Outlets large and small are being shut down, ostensible for violating newly enacted laws intended to suppress the pro-democracy movement.
On the line with me from Hong Kong to discuss the plight of independent media there is Austin Ramzy of the New York Times.
"For the Love of Hong Kong: A Memoir from My City Under Siege" by Hana Meihan Davis
Austin Ramzy's New York Times story
Bosnia is facing its deepest political crisis since the civil war in the 1990s. In 1995, the United States helped broker an agreement between the waring parties known as the Dayton Accords. This agreement created a new political order in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has been an uneasy agreement, certainly tenuous at times, but it has held. Now, the agreement is unraveling -- and very quickly. On the line to explain why and how Bosnia is on the verge of potential political disintegration is Jasmin Mujanovic, a political scientist and analyst of southeast European and international affairs.
David Miliband is the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, one of the larger global humanitarian organizations with relief operations around the world.
At the end of 2021 David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, delivered a lecture at the Council on Foreign Relations identifying and defining what he called a "Systems Failure" in global crisis response. This is the topic of much of our conversation today.
For the last week, massive protests have swept across the large Central Asian country of Kazakhstan. The spark was a decision by the government to increase fuel prices in the country, which is a major fuel producer. But as my guests today explain, though the fuel price hike was the proximate cause of the protests, they are rooted in deep and widespread disaffection with Kazakhstan's ruling class.
Three Kazakstan political and security experts contribute to this episode:
Dr. Erica Marat, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergenova, a professor at the University of Cambridge
Dr. Jen Brick Murtazashvili a professor at the University of Pittsburgh
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