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"A little bit different. I hate to say inconsistent, but like it's a little bit different every time they have the events. So I'm curious to see what they pull out for 2023. For 2021, for example, the theme was around black matter. And so they were talking about designing for joy and like black urban mobility they had a bunch of workshops on spatial thoughts and things of that nature. So it was pretty good. I mean, I feel like they take design and really stretch it in a way that I don't see from other black design conferences. And it's even funny to say other black design conference because so many of them have kind of popped up over the past couple of years now, but it's a good event to go to. I think especially with the work that you're doing, it's probably good if not just for networking, but just to go and see and get inspired with other folks are doing. Yeah, definitely. The other thing I'm thinking about is we started a fellowship program this summer for shy by design. Again, thinking about how are we reaching back and making sure that we're creating opportunities for our young up and coming black and brown designers. And I don't want to sound like those companies that I talked about in 2018, but yo, it was kind of hard. We were getting flooded with lots of applications from non folks of color. Yeah. And I was like, all right, and you know, we reached out to the HBCUs. They were kind of like pushing us away. The HBCUs were? Yeah. And I assume it was because they didn't know us. Even though, you know, two of our team members are HBCU alums. So we were just like, all right, we gotta do better and be more aggressive on getting our folks. I mean, we hit our goal, but yeah, it was just, we were shocked to be honest at what happened when you sent that application out. So yeah, definitely be dope to be there. Network even more. Networking on the superficial, what can you do for me, but like you said, coming to the reunion? Yeah, absolutely. What advice would you give to somebody that wants to follow in your footsteps? They're hearing your story now. They want to do a similar type of thing. What would you tell them? Yeah. Figure out who you are. Figure out who you are, stand on that. Be confident on who you are, what you stand for, don't waver, things will get very hard. There have been many times where I've had to decide whether or not I was going to stay true to who I am. And risk my job or just do what they wanted me to do and be secure, and I would like to say the vast majority of the time I put my career on the line, I can think of many instances, but I'm sure I don't want to be arrogant and say, I did it every time. I'm sure there were times where I folded too. So that will happen. So then be patient with yourself, there will be mistakes along the road. But letting that purpose that who you are, guide your work, the opportunities will come, it may not be as fast or as you want. But they will happen, right? None of us knew 2020 was going to happen. And so, you know, I had started doing this antiracist design work before that. And that's when everybody was talking about equity center design. And so I stayed away from that because I didn't believe it was possible under the system we have on the capitalism. So I was focused on anti racism, and then 2020 happened, and anti racism became a thing, right? And people started to embrace it. Kennedy's book was bestseller. And so, you know, again, it may not come at the time that you want, but as long as you're staying true, it will happen. And even if it doesn't, you stand in your own truth. So I think for, again, it's figuring out who you are, what you believe in, what you're trying to accomplish, and then utilizing every skill set that you have to help get there, right? Don't be afraid to challenge the norm just because it is doesn't mean it should be. And it doesn't mean it's right. So keep pushing. And I feel like so many young people are already doing that, but yeah, just keep doing it. We, as a society, will be better for it. Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years, like, what do you want sort of the next chapter of your story to be? Oh, so I feel like I will still be at shot by design with what role I'm not sure. But I think, you know, we've built a thing that is exactly what I hoped for. And so part of that was also like turning over power. So an example, we have a shadow design. We have Ghanaian Independence Day off as a company holiday and we have Diwali off as a company holiday because we have team members who are from Ghana and India. When I was developing the company, one of the craziest things that I found out about capitalism when our HR person was like, what company holidays are you gonna have off? And I'm like, the regular ones. She's like, no, that's not how it works. You have to pick which ones you want and which ones you don't. And I was like, that's nuts. I thought it was like the standard demand, you know, like there was a policy that you had to have with these things off, right? And I was like, that's wild. But again, you know, because we're in the United States, they're all American things. And so I didn't want them to feel left out right now. We wanted to co create this organization, and we're constantly co creating the organization. And so, you know, I made a decision that we would celebrate as a company, something that was important to them as well. So that they wouldn't have to use their personal time or sick time to try to celebrate something that was meaningful to them. What always just get the things that we're supposed to quote unquote supposed to get off. And so, you know, I think we'll keep co creating and based on the people we have, it'll always be the place that I want to be. I believe that. I hope that's true. So yeah, I'd be here, but again, I don't know which role I don't think I will stay at the top in terms of title in 5 years, but I don't know what it's going to be. So I'm always excited about the unknowns. Well, just to kind of wrap things up here, where can our audience find out more information about you about your work about the firm? Where can they find that online? Sure. So our website is WWW dot shy by design dot com and shy is CHI. Also, for folks to know, it is shy by design. We always get chai by design or shy, it's for Chicago. Instagram, Twitter, same thing at shy by design, and yeah, we're always looking to collaborate with folks and make the world more antiracist. Sounds good to me. Well, Chris Rudd, I want to thank you so much for coming on the show. One, I think, just what you're doing around anti racism via design is so monumental and important that your background of wanting to help out kids and help out youth and now you're being able to use this along with human centered design, methodology and stuff to really impact and make change on such a grand scale. I'm really excited to know that there's somebody like you that one is a designer but it's also someone that is really passionate about community and passionate about social justice and about using design to really make this a better world. So thank you so much for coming on
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"That term too. And like, go for it. And so I think where we're at now is, and it's not me. It's a lot of folks, right? We got to slow down. We got to think deeper about the systemic social impacts of what we make. Because they absolutely have those outcomes. Is there something that you want to accomplish that you haven't had the chance to do yet? Actually, I've been thinking about it a lot. I think I might go back to school to learn industrial design. I just want to get better at making tangible things beyond like I love thinking about the systems and the larger complex problems and solutions, but I do want to get better at making things. I think that's a good natural extension though of like what you're doing is to extend into things. I'm curious, have you heard of the black in design conference? Yes. Have you been? I have not. I think, well, let's see, they have it every other year, so I know they're having it next year because they started in 2015 and so they do it. It takes place at Harvard, their graduate school of design. And I feel like the work that you were doing would be such a perfect fit for what that conference is about. So that conference kind of tends to deal with design in terms of like the lived space, like they usually it's been like architecture, landscape planning, stuff like that, but they've started over the years to extend it into areas of black futurism. I think they had one year they were talking about biomimicry and stuff like that. But I think what it is is showing the application of design in people's lives like to change outcomes and stuff. I feel like the work that you're doing would be a really natural fits for that. They have the 2021 conference virtual. I feel like they're going to have the 2023 conference in person again. But it's at Harvard. It's a good conference. I think you should check it out. Oh, definitely. We definitely, I've seen it, and I think I didn't go in 21 because it was virtual I think I was just kind of like virtual out. Yeah. Like the move. And it's interesting that we've been doing a lot of work recently with organizations to help them figure out the future of their built environment. So, you know, there's a lot of a lot of desire for new community spaces and activating, especially in Chicago. We got a lot of vacant lots and stuff like that. And so we've been getting a lot of inquiries from organizations around that. And so, which I think is great because architecture is just so focused on the built environment. They don't necessarily have that perspective on what the lived environment is looking like. And so I finished a project for a nonprofit here in Chicago that they're trying to do, they're trying to build like a WeWork for education focused nonprofits so that they can really bring the ecosystem together physically so that they would by extension work better and collaborate more on their programming. And so we work with them to figure out what that really what the principles of the space should look like. And so we did these co design workshops with their staff, leadership, the students that they serve and help them think through like what is the ultimate vision for this place and what are the principles you need to design around as architects that we're not going to build it. I'm not going to tell you which materials and lighting and all that. Expertise. But if they have this road map, how might that change their architectural desire? Because, you know, I'm sure for most architects, they're dealing with the client. So if you just deal with leadership of the organization, they can only tell you their vision, but that has nothing to do with or not nothing. That has little to do with the folks that they are serving. And so it was really interesting. It's been interesting to do this alongside architects and hearing them say how valuable it's been for them to be a part of those workshops and see those perspectives and see how they should create differently. So yeah, are you going to be in black and design next year? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I'm definitely going to be there. I remember the first year I went in 2015 and I was trying to get other black designers to go and I couldn't a lot of people were like, I don't know if I want to go. I mean, are they talking about Photoshop or are they talking about sketch? Because these were like, you know, like product designers, UX designers, et cetera. And I'm like, first of all, it's 2015. There were no black design events going on back then. I'm like, this is the first time something like this is happening. It's cheap. I think the tickets were less than a $100. I was like, let's just go. And just see what it's like, and a lot of people I know didn't go that first year, but they have it every other year, so like if you don't go the first year, you can check it out the next year. They record all the sessions, they live streaming. So if you happen to not be there, you can go back and watch previous year sessions to kind of get a sense of what it's like, but it's such, I mean, when I last when it was in 2019 before the pandemic and I did do the virtual conference, of course, just wasn't the same. But it's such a collegial black family reunion esque type experience. I mean, I would say as much as you could get on Harvard's campus. I'll put it that way. Did I bring it out the grill or anything like that? But I mean, it's as much of a collegial space for black design as you're going to find. And it's students, it's longtime designers, it's educators, and like every year or every other year when they have it, it just brings something different to the space itself, like they have it at Harvard graduate school at Harvard's campus. And it's great. It's great. The thing about it is though that because they do it every other year, they have a different staff every other year. So it's always like
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"Lines and at protest my whole life. So I always remember when you came back to school in September, you know, teachers, what did you all do this summer? Friends of mine were like, oh, we went on vacation to blah blah blah and I'm like, yep, I was at a picket line. For like three weeks in Decatur, Illinois and those moments really shaped my perspective and my outlook and very much are with me and my design practice and in my life now. Now you mentioned earlier that you didn't really get into design until you were in your 30s. When you were a kid, did you sort of have a sense of what it is that you wanted to do outside of that? No clue. Zero. I think I was like, so many other people, you know, every year it changed. Before the Internet, for me, at least, you know, on the south side, it wasn't a lot of options around you. Nobody in my neighborhood that I can think of, even now, how to professional career. We grew up in a very working class community. So people worked blue collar jobs. So that was kind of like my plan. If you call it a plan, it was finished high school, get a regular job. My parents had a couple friends that were professors, but I had no interest in going to college and especially for that long to become a professor. So yeah, my kind of goals growing up was to be a family man and I get a job that allowed me to take my kids on vacation once in a while. So when you started out in college, you went to city college in Chicago, Harold Washington college. Tell me about that time. What were you studying at that time? So I studied youth development. So that's actually one of the only two programs I've ever focused on. So I studied youth development because at a certain point, I think I was around 24. I figured, okay, I'll be a teacher. A lot of the women in my family were teachers, and I was like, all right, I could do that. I like young people. I want to help. So I went to her Washington to try to get my Jenna out the way so I can go into a teaching program, but what that actually led me to was working in the nonprofit sector. So I took these youth development classes and it totally changed my outlook. I no longer wanted to be a teacher. I wanted to be a youth worker because I felt like being a youth worker was more around building relationships. You can not demand respect from young people as opposed to being a teacher, right? You go into a classroom, I would be mister Rudd, but youth worker, I was Chris. And so they were able to refer to me as my first name, the same way I was going to refer to them by their first names. It was more around reciprocity rather than hierarchy. At least that's how it felt. And so I went to the nonprofit sector, working with young people in Chicago, and you know, just really trying to help them figure out what's their path. Yeah, it was tough and during that time. We had a lot of violence, and so, yeah. I mean, Chicago definitely has that, I mean, reputation. As you hear in the media and stuff for having a lot of violence, I think a lot of big cities have similar reputations. I mean, I'm in Atlanta in the West End, and I mean, it's southwest Atlanta. It gets kind of bad reputation too for that sort of stuff, but I think that's just a byproduct of living in an urban city like that will happen. For you though, I'm curious, you wanted to go into youth development. Was there something in particular that really drew you to that? Yeah, again, it was really around the relationship building. My early years were focused on organizing. I was organized in high school, and I just knew that we're going to make things better. We have to get to know each other. We have to appreciate each other. And then we have to struggle with each other to be our best selves. And that only happens as you are forming or developing relationships with one another. So this approach to working with young people that centered relationship building really spoke to me. And so that's where I focus my efforts, right? I didn't go to school to become a teacher because I felt like this path was the right way for me. In 20, have this conversation out so much of that is very much a part of my design approach and process. Yeah, like it sounds like it definitely stems from a place of community. Yeah. So you graduate from city college, what does your early post grad career look like? Like what kind of work were you doing is this where you started with these youth groups? Sure, yeah, so I was working on the west side of Chicago, there was a young man had gotten murdered at that time, Darien Albert, and so it was like national news and all of a sudden there was just like all these resources poured into Chicago to curb youth violence. And so I was working at a nonprofit on the west side, which I'm from the south side and in Chicago, south side folks don't go west side, west side folks don't like, you know, we don't go to south side. It's strange. So I got kind of thrown into this whole new world, which I love, and I love the west side now. And work with these young folks who at the time, there was a rubric created to identify the thousand young people most likely to kill or be killed. I don't know what was involved in the rubric, but there was basically like an army of youth workers deployed to make sure that they didn't die and they didn't kill anyone. And so every day I was on the west side, working with a group of ten young men trying to get them to understand that game banging and daughter else they were doing was not the right way for them. And for society and supporting them to get their lives in the place that they wanted to be, right? A lot of them didn't really even want to be doing the things they were doing, but there wasn't an alternative. Unemployment rates were a young man. Black men in Chicago, I think is like 80%. And that's been wow. Yeah, it's unbelievable. And that's been true for almost a decade now. It's not like a new statistic that happened post pandemic. This has been true in Chicago for many years. And so, you know, there's a lot of judgment thrown at these young people. Oh, why don't they just get a job? And you know, now that there's job openings everywhere, this may be partially true. But at that time, it was not possible for them to get traditional work. And for many of them now, it's not possible due to past convictions or honestly, the way they look. Yeah. We hear it all the time, that as soon as they walk into a place looking for a job, but they have dreads, absolutely not. The employer won't even think about it. So, you know, a lot of this is not on them. Also, their children, right? These are teenagers. We can not put these expectations on them that we have on adults. And so yeah, that's where I started. And then I moved to another organization that was less focused on violence prevention, like the one I was doing. And more focus on youth empowerment, which was what I was practicing because I don't think, you know, or violence prevention is really around like keeping kids busy and getting them into sports, which is all great. But my perspective is that you really have to change their outlook on life and help them figure out their own purpose, which to me is around, that's empowerment. So I started working at another nonprofit that really focused on youth empowerment, helping young people find their voice or not find it, but use their voice and that is what led me to the design world. Yeah, let's talk about that. In 2015, you had become a civic innovation fellow through Stanford University. And so this was a fellowship program. Tell me about that experience. Like, how did that sort of change
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"Check out our post that we put on social media. We have one on Twitter, one on Instagram. There's also a link to it in the show notes. We have a lot of fun putting it together. For those of you who may not know, we've put together a holiday gift guide, I think every year we've done her vision path, except for 2019 that was a bit of an outlier, but if you want to check out what we've got on the list this year, go check the link. I hope you'll enjoy it. Secondly, we released a bonus episode last week on the design of Black Panther Wakanda forever. It's a really great conversation with me, Jordan green, reginae Gilbert, and Paul Webb. Talking about not just the plot of the movie, but also the music, the symbolism, the art, and the overall design of the movie. If you haven't seen the movie, it's got a lot of spoilers, so maybe don't listen to the episode, but if you have seen the movie already, definitely go check out that bonus episode. 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After the racial awakening of 2020, lots of organizations and institutions are trying to figure out a, how are they perpetuating systemic racism and then B figuring out pathways to stop and from our perspective, hopefully, to heal the communities and folks that they've harmed over the past. So yeah, it's been a lot. Great work, but also heavy work. Yeah, I can imagine. So I would guess you probably got like an influx of work during that summer of 2020. I think there's a lot of people I spoke to on the show where during that summer are like right after that summer, they just kept getting hit up with requests to speak or to consult or to work or anything like that. Did you kind of have that same swell of interest during that time? Yeah, a lot of speaking, I think during that time, particularly people were really trying to wrap their heads around what it was. And so there was a lot of, can we just talk to you? We want to hear what you're thinking about this. Then the work started to pick up, but we actually developed a rubric for our firm on what we would do and what we wouldn't do. So we really started to vet the organizations that wanted to work with us to see if they were actually about the change that they say they were or if it was just we want to put a black face to the work to somehow validate the efforts, even if they knew it was going to fall short. And even if they didn't know, we would work with them to say, hey, here's where we see your shortcomings. And if they were willing to understand and accept that, then we could move forward. If they weren't, then we were happy to walk away. That's good. 'cause I can imagine people probably came all out of the woodwork that found your firm and was like, wait a minute, that's a black guy. Let's talk to them. Let's see if we can help it. Yeah. And then really, you know, they thought they knew. That was a lot of them. All we gotta do is just, it would come out in this way. All we have to do is just make this one simple change. And boom, racism is gone or, you know, we will function differently. And the hard part for us is helping them understand that changing an organization changing a system, an institution is a huge shift or requires large scale shifts from top to bottom, not just in terms of personnel, but also in terms of philosophy, practices, policy, right? All these organizational structure. And so that was a hard thing for folks to deal with, right? It's been doing this thing for so long and from your perspective, you've been doing a great job, right? Profit margins may be through the roof or you've put out a couple of surveys of rate us and for the most part you send them to people that like you and you're like, yep, that was a great and then the negative ones that come back. You're like, oh, they don't really get it. And so, yeah, it's been interesting journey. Well, let's kind of dive in more and talk about your firm's shy by design. What you describe as a collaborative and cultivating space for designers of color, like that already just that hit me like a ton of bricks there. Tell me more
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"rudd" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"I don't watch black and white movies. All right, wow. Now tell TJ, you're gonna tell TJ that braves are gonna make up that game and a half and a half. On its mouth. I'm actually here. I don't know that. TJ. 'cause we always seem to be at odds. But for once we're gonna actually be rooting for the same person because we both have Kyler Murray as our starting quarterback. Okay, so we got that in common, which is nice. So we can be Friends. We don't always got to be enemies. You know, I'm really got any good shoes to be in. Fantasy team name would be calamari, iPad, don't you think that'd be a good one? It would be a good one. What's on your mind now? What's on your mind? I've got to get to this. How am I supposed to feel about my falcons making me go nuts to the point where my family is currently Frank that takes Fleming junior because I'm flipping out. Over one yard, 16 point lead, and we lose that game. I can't take it. And then I got Daniel Jeremiah saying I should be proud of how the profits played. You should. I don't know how to feel. Because it's still a marathon, man. And I think you're getting it right. Look, the roster was what it was to use that phrase because Matt Ryan was on it, eating up so much space and the team was built to make sure Matt Ryan could win a championship there in his dotage. And their top wide receiver is suspended for a year for gambling after he was out the year before. I mean, a lot has happened to that franchise in that team over the last two years. And I think they've got and thanks to the call out. I think they got it right. Arthur Smith is you just saw how intense he was right there? And dean peas, man. Getting after it. You know, this is him. This is my favorite. This is my favorite sound bite of training camp. Go for it. We're changing a culture around his day going place. And it's not going to be mediocre. It's not going to be average. And I go be in the bottom half of the league. Like it's been 15 out of the last 20 years. Sick of that crap. We got to take charge. And it ain't going to be anybody else to do it, but us. Okay? I'm tired of everybody telling us how bad we are. After a while you start believing it. Just like you tell you, you never tell your children and stuff like, hey, you guys, you know what, you getting mad at a teacher says, you know, telling some kitty stupid, right? You don't ever tell somebody that, 'cause pretty soon they start believing that. Guys around here on defense sometimes believe that 15th is okay or whatever. I've been in the top ten one time out of the last 20 years. It's over. Sorry, I'm getting fired up today, but I'm tired of this crap. We're going to change the culture of the defense
The Rich Eisen Show
"rudd" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"He wasn't looking for that famed T of his. He was looking for someone who can catch the ball or based on the way he was gesticulating, being in the spots that he's looking for them to Ben. Can't blame him for being frustrated because, as you know, the window closes a little more tight. Every single snap of the football for Rogers now, he was Aaron Rodgers after the game. Many news is going to be growing fans. This is the real football. It counts. It's different. There's nerves. I thought Christian ran a great route to start the game. We talked about it during the week. Do you really want to start off with the bomb shot? I said, yeah, what the hell? Why not? You know, this kid can really fly this Kim a chance. Look, we got our patients with those guys. They're young. They haven't been in the fire. Now, that patients will be thinner as the season goes on, but the expectation will be high. So we'll keep them accountable. But it's going to happen. It's going to be drops. Hate to see it on the first play, but there's a part of it. It's going to be dropped throughout the season. Hey man, he's not mincing any words. That's the truth. What else are you supposed to say? It's not going to rip him a new one in front of the media, but that's the truth. He's going to be drops. You got to be, you got to understand it. I guess he's counseling patience instead of being instead of relax, can't be relaxed because I don't know who's, you know, devonte Adams is not walking through that door. But they do have some really talented kids who just need to be in the right spots and start catching the ball. That's a big season opening loss to the Vikings. That's going to be something that's going to be sitting out there. They play the Vikings again, let me see. Oh boy, week 17. So maybe buy in. Hopefully they'll catch the football a little bit better. Look, there's no other take other than the same way I've been talking about Trey Lance. The forty-niners, fans think, well, Jimmy G is going to get in there because there's downs to go along with some of the ups. I mean, Lance made some one throw that went over the defender went over like a linebacker and right in the hands of one of its receivers making an out route. It was beautiful. I mean, it's in there. But they're going to be downs and folks are like, well, that's what Jimmy G is going to get in. And I say no. You got to go with the ups and downs so the downs get ironed out and it's only ups for you. And that's the way things go with most young quarterbacks.
Between The Lines
"rudd" Discussed on Between The Lines
"How do you care for that? Think you've got the emergence of what we've described as the social forces of modernity. Many Chinese women are frankly fed up with the way in which they have been treated by many Chinese men. And frankly, are voting accordingly. And so as a result, this is no longer just this sort of society which will click its heels and respond socially to what the system wants. I think on top of that, the economic fragilities are also real. And the movement to the left in terms of China's economic policy settings, favoring once again, start an enterprises and creating all sorts of impediments for the Chinese private sector. Have created, I think, an emerging challenge in terms of private sector business confidence in China, which is in turn slowing the growth rate together with other factors. And finally, the rolling fragility of politics. Whatever we may critique our own political system for and there are many things. We always have these things called automatic stabilizers. And I called elections and then you can toss the bums out whenever you want. And guess what? The system remains still fundamentally stable, leaving aside, by the way, the events of January the 6th, the United States, but I won't go there. But the Chinese don't have that. And so when you've got, let's call it what's often described as resilient authoritarian systems. The danger zone for them is always at the point of internal power transition. Where, frankly, things can lurch in one direction or another, and sometimes violently. And talking about danger zones, the widespread view is that Beijing has heard its credibility by aligning itself with Vladimir Putin. Now the Chinese leadership is internally divided about this matter. I think you've made that point. Do you think Xi Jinping will abandon Putin? I don't believe so. Because the Chinese are very much mere shami and realize realists. Whenever a mission goes to Beijing, they greet him and throw petals on the ground. Because they love what he has to say. That's true. As they do in Moscow, because mere time is simply points to the balance of power, and unlike hedley bull, he may refer to before, does not offer the way through in terms of a negotiation based on the balance of power. Now, do you call Xi Jinping a calculated risk taker? Doesn't China run the risk of secondary financial sanctions being imposed by Washington and its allies against China if Beijing violates those sanctions? Isn't that a real problem for Xi Jinping? The evidence so far here in the United States is that Xi Jinping and the Chinese system have steered clear of either financial actions or military actions which would cause them to have secondary sanctions lodged against them. And the reason for that is not anything other than deeply realistic assessment that as of now 2022, China's economy and financial system remains vulnerable to the U.S. dollar denominated global financial system, including its essential financial plumbing in swift, the international settlement system. So for those sorts of reasons, the balancing act which Xi Jinping in my analysis will seek to pursue something like this Tom. Steering clear of technically breaching shank sanctions, providing diplomatic and political and shall I say trade support for Putin's Russia because at present there are no sanctions against trade in oil and gas and commodities because the Europeans need those things. And at the same time, not abandoning Putin at all. For the simple reason is from a realist perspective, Xi Jinping looks at Russia and says China needs strategically a benign Russian border with China. It releases China's strategic energies to focus on their principal regional global challenge and that's the United States. And at the same time, Russia can create strategic diversion for the United States and other theaters, like Syria, like Libya and now of course in Ukraine. Okay, finally, and this is really the issue of your book. You refer to these two giants. The Americans and the Chinese finding a way to coexist without betraying their core interests. So the question is, how do we manage the strategic competition in a way that does not result in a serious crisis? Kevin Rudd. Remember the near death experience of 1962, which was the Cuban missile crisis. An interesting thing happened between the Soviets and the United States after that. Informally, and then more formally, they develop certain de minima rules of the road. Guardrails to conduct their strategic competition in a manner which didn't run the rolling risk of blowing each other's brains out, like nearly happened in 62. My argument is given where we are now with China. And the United States. There are two paths. One is what I call unmanaged strategic competition with a rolling risk of crisis conflict in war because there are no rules of the road. And it's all push and prod. And hope that it all turns out okay in the end, or instead what I advocate in the conclusion of the book is a joint strategic framework, the minima called managed strategic competition. Basic rules of the road around strategic red lines, preventing lethal conflict in other areas of competition in foreign policy and the economy and trade investment technology and frankly an ideology as well, the great battle for ideas. And thirdly, it's still carving out strategic space where both sides agree in their national interest to do so and critical areas such as climate action, as well as managing the next pandemic because we bug it up the last one. So phenomenally well. And then thirdly, in continued global financial stability between the world's two largest economies. In a nutshell, that's the concept of managed strategic competition. And following on from that and you have a chapter in your book about the sustainability challenge for China. How then in an intensifying security competition, can the United States encourage Beijing to slash emissions, especially given China's heavy reliance on fossil fuels? The Chinese renewable energy transformation is massive. But it's still not fast enough. If you were to look at the number of solar wind and other renewable energy plants being built across the country, there is a big transformation underway. But China rely significantly on foreign oil gas and coal, Kevin. That's true. And so do most other economies at this stage. But it would be empirically wrong to point out that there's no transition underway. It is. It's just not fast enough. Like the one in America at prison is not fast enough. And these are the two world's largest emitters. My argument is simply it's not about whether you feel warm and fuzzy going off to a conference in Glasgow. It's got nothing to do with it. It's enriching a national conclusion that global warming, but more importantly in the immediate term, extreme weather events coming out of climate change. Representing such a risk to your country's economy and social stability that you bring forward your programs for energy transformation. And China this year, they've had a really bad grain harvest. It's been brought about by extreme weather events, the type which the Chinese are not seen for a very long time. So for those sort of reasons, it is an appeal to the national interest of both countries quite apart from their sense of planetary or global responsibility, but I think you can carve out some space. Remember even the Soviets and the Americans. After the Cuban missile crisis, collaborated on the global elimination of smallpox, fancy that. If they could do that, then surely we could have enough imagination creativity. You do the same, even within a small realist paradigm of strategic competition. No wonder you call yourself a hopeful realist, Kevin, you and I have been doing this for more than 20 years since we met in the late 1990s, always great to have you on between the lines. Thanks very much, Tom, all the best to your listeners..
Between The Lines
"rudd" Discussed on Between The Lines
"Student of China since he was 18 years old as an a and new undergraduate, Kevin riders lived for a number of years in the U.S. where he's the chief executive of the Asia society in New York. His new book is called the avoidable war. The dangers of a catastrophic conflict between the U.S. and Xi Jinping's China. That's published by has shed Australia. Kevin Rudd, welcome back to the program. Good to be with you, Tom. Now you say China is retreating from wolf warrior diplomacy, yet it's still advances its strategy for dominance. Tell us more. Well, what's the difference classically in the Chinese understanding? Between tactics and strategy, China's strategic ambition, which is to become the dominant power in East Asia and the west Pacific and to become the dominant global strategic and economic power. Remains in place. But I think there is an analysis in Beijing, the tactically, the flurry of wolf warrior diplomacy, and episodic thuggery, which accompanied it, has not necessarily in the tradition of Dale Carnegie being the best things for winning friends and influencing people. In fact, it's gone in the reverse direction. So I noticed the wolf warriors in recent times have been rained back in again. It doesn't mean that operationally Chinese diplomacy or foreign policy or national security policy is going to be on the defensive. But simply that the public tonality of it for the period ahead may well change and soften. Does all this mean then that Australia and the west have been incredibly naive in engaging with China during the last three decades. Now, before you answer that, let's hear from your old sparring partner on this program, Kevin. This is professor John Misha from the University of Chicago on the folly of western engagement in the post Cold War era. What engagement says is that if we can integrate China into the international economy that the United States helped create during the Cold War. We can integrate it into that economy, integrate it into institutions like the World Trade Organization. It will be calm, a very powerful country, but it will become a peaceful country and a so called responsible stakeholder in the international system. Now, for a realist like me, this was a crazy policy. This was remarkably foolish because what you were going to do in my story was you were going to create a very powerful China that was then going to try to dominate Asia, push the United States out of Asia and develop power projection capability that could be used outside of Asia to change America's dominant position in the world, engagement was a major mistake. As professor John me Sharma on between the lines last December, Kevin Rudd, you've been a strong advocate of China engagement, but in more recent times you've described yourself as either a brutal realist or a hopeful realist, do you now recognize that we in the west, as John may sharman just put it, we've just been feeding the beast. Well, miss schemers analysis is firstly a historic and B deceptive. Let me go to those points in sequence. A historic in the sense that engagement has been pursued by the United States with multiple countries in the past, not least of which has been post war Japan and post war Germany. They were invited to join the table of the liberal international order. They became powerful, but they chose to remain within the order. Now, a similar approach was adopted, of course, a generation after that, or two generations after that, in terms of post 78, U.S. engagement with China and particularly post 2002 engagement with China when China was admitted to the World Trade Organization. And the results, of course, as we see with China's carrot assertiveness and determination to establish an alternative to the real international order, has not been successful. But the second point is this, this is where he's been misrepresenting what the United States, I believe, was doing over that period of time. The argument often used by those on the far right, of which I associate with which I associate mere shime is this. Is that the United States under successive American presidents from bush through back through Clinton or from bush one through Clinton through bush two and then Obama, et cetera. Had been engaged in engagement unqualified until we had the Moses on Mount Sinai moment of Trump and national security adviser for the Trump administration, HR McMaster, producing the new national security strategy of late 2017. It's an inconvenient truth that engagement was never unqualified. It was engagement plus hedge and remember hedge equaled contained to have the military capability to act in the eventuality that engagement failed. That's within that framework. That's why, for example, Obama administration engaged in the pivot to Asia militarily and embrace the trans Pacific partnership in order to hedge against any emergence of Chinese assertiveness and or regression. So that's been conveniently left off the mere charming recollection of history. I'd have to say having known me and Sharma will for 20 years, he's not on the far right. He's a pretty mainstream intellectual. He's just a hardcore realist when it comes to foreign policy, but leaving that aside. How many of these have you seen on the far left recently? Well, I think he's in the middle, but nevertheless, well heavily bull was a realist. As you know, heavily bull from a new, one of the great Australian realists and he was a man of the left, but leaving that Assad, you acknowledge that China wishes to become the dominant economy in the political system in the strategic power, not just in the Asia Pacific, but globally over time. That's what you're saying in your book, but this process, let me submit this to you. Let's not just take in a few years. That's been happening over decades, hasn't it, so I'll ask again, why are you and so many former western leaders so late in recognizing the China threat? I think the other thing I would add to what you just said before is that headley ball was also the father of the English school of international relations, which was not the American school of realism. The English school of international relations had two traditions within it. One a realist analysis of the balance of power, but secondly, the construction of a system of international institutions, which could militate against the possibility of rolling crisis conflict and war. So therefore, I respond to your last point because I think it needs to be corrected. In terms of your general assertion that there has been a level of strategic naivety about engage and hedge, which is the accurate description of U.S. strategy over a long period of time and that of its allies. You may recall that back in 2009, as prime minister of Australia, I presided over a defense white paper which was produced which said, we need to be vigilant about the emergence of a more assertive China militarily in our region. It formed the strategic basis for the Australian defense white paper of 2009, which commissioned two things, a doubling of the submarine fleet, and an increase in the surface fleet by a third, our Chinese friends went nuts when we produced that, because they thought it was far too overt and direct in describing what China operationally had already begun to do during the second term of the Hu Jintao administration. So that's my response.
AP News Radio
Super Bowl ads take a less serious tone
"Almost two years after the start of the pandemic commercials for this year's Superbowl or taking a less serious tone companies are pulling out a lot of A. list celebrities Amazon is featuring Scarlett Johannson and husband Colin Jost and Alexis that can read your mind I love that we get to sleep ordering fresh mint mouthwash Jeanine Poggi with ad age says the country has been through a lot over the last few years in Super Bowl advertisers are looking for an escape Hey I really want to create more of a party atmosphere so we're seeing more light hearted adds more humorous ads there are very few that have been released so far that take a serious tone you will see some old favorites please brings back so many good memories with Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd yes there will be some new ads this year and you have brands like at TI acts and etoro encrypted dot com po G. says thirty seconds of airtime during the Super Bowl sold for as high as seven million dollars I'm a Donahue
AP News Radio
Paul Rudd hosts 'SNL' sans audience, Charli XCX amid omicron
"NBC NBC Saturday Saturday Night Night Live Live has has once once again again pulled pulled back back because because of of the the corona corona virus virus pandemic pandemic this this time time because because of of the the surging surging Omicron Omicron variant variant I I marches marches are are a a letter letter with with the the latest latest Saturday Saturday Night Night Live Live was was not not in in front front of of an an audience audience nor nor was was it it entirely entirely live live host host Paul Paul Rudd Rudd appeared appeared with with only only Tom Tom Hanks Hanks Tina Tina fey fey and and Keenan Keenan Thompson Thompson because because of of the the spike spike in in the the Omicron Omicron variance variance in in out out of of an an abundance abundance of of caution caution Hanks Hanks announced announced that that most most of of the the cast cast and and crew crew were were sent sent home home musical musical guest guest Charli Charli XCX XCX tweeted tweeted she she was was devastated devastated and and heartbroken heartbroken that that she she had had to to cancel cancel because because of of the the limited limited crew crew the the show show you you sketches sketches that that were were taped taped earlier earlier in in the the week week and and past past highlights highlights
The Rich Eisen Show
"rudd" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"Just being avatar of a football player okay. Very good walking. Ibuprofen paul rod. You've you've done the lord's work. I greatly appreciate it. Have you so. Have you drafted yet. Did you do your draft. You find a space in your shoot scheduled to do your football draft yet. Yeah i did and that was also really fun. Drafting at midnight because everyone else back home and then waking up three hours later to go film. I don't advise wow okay so who'd you get. Do you like it. You like your team good you what would you got. Well i have more than one team. I too many of them By a couple of teams. And i do. I do like them. Actually i I think they're they're actually. Okay okay all right all right well. You know it's funny. We had kind of ali on the show the other day in the first seven minutes of our conversation was about how he did the greatest parallel park job of his life while fighting off the rest of brooklyn to try and get the spot literally with seven minutes of a conversation with that same conversation with him. So you know exactly what it is. Okay well exactly what it is. i know exactly what. Yeah plus you. Paul wrote He's the best. Bless you paul rudd. Thanks for calling in. i love it. I love our little tradition. I love it. Wish you luck in the league. This year saint same to you sir. Cheerio with your colors odors. And i meant to smashing thaw fridge. Thanks for the call paul. We'll chat soon brother brigade it. You're the man already right. There on the mercedes benz vans phone line. Legend on the richeisenshow am sure mercedes is proud to have their name attached to such a tremendous segment. Well why wouldn't mercedes. Wanna be associated with glenn watson or walking ibuprofen. He didn't. I was surprised. They didn't like Intently chose glen watching nuts over making. I thought that was it. I really thought plum snug wears the one-seat nope walking ibuprofen. Are you ready. let's go. What should our avatar beano. What it's interesting it's only fitting because we had our second overall pick the second overall pick of the draft we had to last year and we chose saquon barkley. And then our other running back you know. It was devon single terry. Who couldn't do anything. I running backs were true. I mean last year our last two years by the way did they change. The waiver wire ruler. They didn't. I think you austat battle rich. It's such an outrage. I know but knock on. Wood are running in every league. You tell me why. Don't you do this in your league. Where the order of record is how you are in position to draft in the waiver. Wire the worst team gets the first pick and the second worst team gets the second pick. Yeah when it's time to reset on the waiver wire on that wednesday designed to help the point this league. If you've chosen somebody you know over the weekend you get knocked down off waivers right. Yeah so i choose somebody over the weekend. And i lose my running back like say saquon barkley but because i pick somebody up to fill in my injured wide receiver from week one right. I do that on a saturday. I'm now knocked down a peg for wednesday Saquon barkley gets hurt. And i'm in last place at owen too. I should get the first choice of. Who's the running back available. But i don't because i had to use my waiver wire onto wide receiver. I think that's ridiculous via. I am going with the confused looking ben roethlisberger for walking. I do pro avatar area. Okay there it is it's done. You're ready for zeke elliott on the program sir. I'm anticipate out of your. I hope you are. I'm ready. zeke elliott tonight brother. let's go. I mean i. It's just it always freaks me out when it's the first game because it's been so long and i always feel like it's for some reason you know never coming back off it's just my my default right like it just takes so long. It's the longest off-season months in sports. It's seven months. It's the longest off-season in sports. Nothing comes close. Be where it is september. If you say goodbye to baseball at the end of october sometimes into november speaking of which derek jeter in the hall of fame yesterday that i missed it. Yeah right and And so baseball's done november pitchers and catchers report in late february late february the nba. I mean it seems like blinken. Then it's easy boards then h. L. is i think started yesterday right. It's very smart. Start very soon. That's sin and football just takes forever in the first quarter. It's just weird even on already. Just a bunch of football with college. Yeah but i don't feel that way with college with no the. Today is the official official. Is it this is it. this is it and it's back and it's the only choice. It was the only choice to to put. I i. I feel you on that. I feel like a buffalo bucks would also have been awesome. Now i feel like it would have been just as hypothesis would not have i disagree. Chris not saying buffalo can win the super bowl. I don't want people. Nobody's saying dallas can win the super bowl. I know what people are saying. But there's a difference between the bills mafia and the dallas cowboy. Phantom just is no. you can't compare. Wow you're starting something starting anything. I'm not starting anything. I i see this fully knowing that. I'm talking to bills fan. Who's at the controls of our cameras right now and the difference in induction skains. There's a difference between luge cowboy and in sane bills fan but the difference here. The difference is cowboys. Fans are literally everywhere. I know bills fans can say that they are passionate and they are in that. They're diehard and they are and that they are do or die and they are but there are more of that guy yup and there is of the guy in the back and that is true and that is true. But if you're looking per the progress storylines the bills are next. The bills are next. I will say this about. I'll say that. This is the best way to describe it. And i'm going to get in trouble for was it. You like this sort of stuff. When i say this let it fly right. I pick up the tea. And i get ready. What are you smoking. Some say about you know.
The Twilight Zone Podcast
"rudd" Discussed on The Twilight Zone Podcast
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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
"rudd" Discussed on Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
"rudd" Discussed on Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
"I was thinking when you were talking about improv. During the shooting of a movie from the stage experience. I have every line has written his. You know it's it's important to have to have to find out what it really means. And why i'm saying it and sometimes i can't understand what the purpose of these words is and sometimes when you ask somebody get offended if you ask them. So what do you do when that happens Well i figure if. I don't know exactly what it is that i'm saying it's not it. No one else is going to understand. Enhance be through a test. You kind of have to know it and that just kind of goes back. Also when i was first studying shakespeare in i had my shakespeare glossary and it was in. School is a you better know what you are saying on every line and if you don't it will just sound like a bunch of jakobsen gobbledygook you're not gonna follow any of it as an audience member. Yeah if you know as the actor what it is that you're saying it the audience is gonna know if they're going to it. They very where they don't even have to speak the language. You can understand an actress intention by the way their voices way. The way they're moving the you can understand these things but but only if you really know what it is. You're saying so. I might offend somebody or am i. I'm looking all claim stupidity. I don't get. I kinda. Don't get what am i say. Yes i do too i just. I don't have to feign stupidity. You say. I don't either more often than not. They actually just assume that they let me explain team. I had a terrible experience. Once where i i had the wrong idea about what the scene was. And i've seen other actors go through this too. They they they come in with just the opposite notion of what's going on and it's difficult to get an actor to turn it around the opposite of it. Yeah but high here. I was at this point doing the opposite of it. And i didn't realize it and nobody was telling me. Oh because they were afraid that they didn't want to hurt my feelings. I i when we were unmatched we would just be so open with each other because we trusted each other. Like when you're doing your own films your own project films that you've written and directed for Versus ones that you have just been a higher to act in do you do. Is your approach different. You feel as passionate about all of them or you more passionate about yours particularly and you want to get the way. I used to get more desperate if it was your broker directed i would. I'd be more likely to get into a mode where i was pleading with the audience to go. We wasn't very attractive. Does to see that happen in. Put it as an actor. You can put a few months into a movie as a writer and as the director. You're you putting at least two years into. It may be three or four. Yeah so the desperation quotient can go up well and as a result. The passion for something is deeper. It's your thing when we come back from our break. Paul rudd talks about getting in shape for starring role in the ant man movies and what became an extended version of our seven quick questions. Paul tells me what he wishes he really understood. And what's the strangest question he's ever been asked after this. Don't forget if you enjoy listening to the fascinating guests. We have one clear and vivid. You can help. Keep the flame alive by becoming a patron of the show. Clear in vivid in all the center for communicating. Science are both nonprofit and your patronage of clear and vivid. Help support them. Both you can become a patron at any level and get early access to special videos at the highest level. You can get fun in sometimes weird benefits like my recording of your personalized voicemail. Message either with courteous dignity for the rambunctious among you a message with a certain amount of attitude take a look at patriotair dot com slash clear and vivid patriot dot com slash clear and vivid. And thank you. This is clear and vivid. And now back to my conversation with paul rudd. Now let me ask you about it man. I was very struck by the scene where you took off your shirt. Had these rippling muscles was that your was that a computer. That was me. Yeah that was. It was the and i always say like if you really really want to get in great shape Try and get cast as the lead in a marvel film. Wouldn't do me any good. It's a really really good motivator. I had to do a movie. Where a few years ago. Whereas already passed seventy five and i get out of a swimming pool and walk the past next to the pool and pick up a towel i said. Don't make me do this in a bathing suit. Don't worry we got a computer. That's gonna fix everything fifteen years off my belly. It really wish. I knew that they would do. They could do that before. I put in the year. Just eating salmon really wants to work note. Lee aren't god. It's a heart ill with the hardest. You've ever worked on anything and the hardest is is the actual diet and exercise preparing for these marvel films. It's it's great. I mean. I have never been in better shape than you know as middle aged guy working on these in these movies but I i'd never. I'd never committed to fitness and diet and exercise like that in my life. And you i understand when people say oh you feel great you sleep. Great you have energy and and clarity and focus i. I really did feel all the benefits of that And so it you know it was a cool experience to do still kind of doing it and I was going to ask you. do you keep it up. yeah i i do. I kept. I never stopped from doing in between the first and second one. We're getting ready to do a third one but I actually just worked on something and went longer than it was supposed to because ovid But that part would've it wouldn't have made any sense to be in great shape. And so i had been training before that thing came around and i stopped all of it and then now you behind the so now. I picked it up now over the last few months working with trainers in diet and all of that stuff. But it's coming a lot harder this this and now i have to. I got a really so for the next for the rest of the year. I'm going to be in fitness zone. But it's amazing. How quickly it all goes away. Goes way faster than he comes in..
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
"rudd" Discussed on Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
"I think when people talk about improvisation and even improvising scenes. When you're working on a film and comedy it's not really about the jokes if you can think of one in the moment it great but if you are really if you're really connected with the person you're acting opposite You have to kind of innately know. Oh this is where this is going. So i have to play this seriously to help them do what they're going to do. That's paul rudd. We've acted in a couple of movies together. And in fact one of the highlights of my acting life was a scene. We improvised one of the reasons that sticks in my memories that we manage to do what paul was just talking about we connected with each other and we went with it wherever it leads. The scene never made it into the movie but for me it was a highlight and i was glad to be back in touch with paul again. This is great to be talking with you. Because i had so much fun with you when we act together i feel the same i i i loved working with you more the ones we've been able to do it. I mean going back to the nineties with object of my affection and then wanderlust. We had a blast. One of the highlight for me. Was that scene. We improvise in wunderlist. That never made it into the movie. But you were you. Were you such a good improviser. Did you ever study import. Improvisation or did you belong to an improv company. Ever i never did that by the way. That was a highlight of my career. Getting meal do that with you. But i never. I never really studied it in terms of going through second city or doing any of that kind of stuff when i was in high school junior high and high school. I started doing These speech competitions in our school district and one of the one of the Categories that you could perform in was Improvised duet acting. So i had an acting partner and that was We would do these tournaments where you'd pick a topic or something you get to go out in the hall for ten minutes or so come back in and then perform some four. Three four minutes catch That was the first experience i've ever had with any kind of improvisation. And i really liked it but once i decided to become an actor i studied theater and never provides when you're doing a play and then when i started working in movies very little improvisation. It wasn't until i had worked on the movie. Anchorman and i worked with will ferrell. And adam mckay and jud appetite that all of a sudden. They started filming They started improvising. So much and really using the script. As a blueprint. And i just loved it so much and i loved what that just love what it could do for a moment and what you know. Keep you on your toes forces you to listen he and that ultimately what this is all about so right you know. I improvised alive as a young actor and learned viola. Poland's sway of improvising. Did you ever come across her work. No it's amazing. Could is not comedy improvising. There's a lot of laughter involved in an because the spontaneity which tables everybody you know you right when you see something happening for the first time and the people are really connected really listening to each other and in the same place. It tickles him. Yeah but it's not jokes. You don't go for jokes when this is the biggest misconception. I think when people talk about improvisation and even improvising scenes. When you're working on a film and comedy it's it's not really about the jokes if you can think of one in the moment great but if you are really if you really connected with the person you're acting opposite You have to kind of innately know. Oh this is where this is going to play this seriously to help them do what they're going to do. The two basic elements of improvising. You do one is to agree. Say yes and yes wind right. Where does that take a next and the other is to make your partner look good and that rose your partner as a as a tool for your own aggrandizement. When you started improvising. More and movies. Did you find that changed you in your day to day routines with other people. Because i i see you seem to live in an improper tori life. I see you're comfortable with strangers. Nothing seems to throw you. Somebody comes over to the table while you're eating you don't spit out your food. Maybe maybe maybe it's taught me to not to not let that fear and panic show. Yeah i should say. I'm not completely unflappable. In any of those situations i don't feel it inside but like anything if you fake it. Well enough then. It's good enough and it. Probably i suppose the improvisation of all of it has informed who i am To a certain extent it has certainly informed how i hacked. Because i don't think i've done anything in the last except a play where i don't really i won't it provides but I don't think i've done anything where i haven't at played around with dialogue or left some space and say hey. We just see what happens here. I know. I know that. Feeling when i when i was a kid and beginning on the stage in rehearsal i would because i loved improvising so much i'd feel free and rehearsal to improvise a line here and there and i would like a million bucks on opening night. Those lines were still in the play. You know right well. Yeah that's a lot easier to do. If you're not doing hamlet much what what do you do when the writers alive you get a little bit. If i have rehearsed the play and the and the playwright is in the room during rehearsals and the end they might say yet. I liked that. Let's let's add. Yeah right exactly. What do you do. Because i know you've done shakespeare. What do you do with all your spontaneity. You're you're just loaded with spontaneity. Do you have a way to combine that with rigid demand of speaking poetry. I suppose the spontaneity is Everything that you do outside of the dialogue with. I'm doing play. I love working with other actors that they're so free that they change everything they're doing even on a nightly basis no words the words are the same. Yeah but maybe there's a they're doing something in between the in between the lines and that's completely different it. Just it's so charged so great to act with people that do that. I did a play and the actor. A great actor michael shannon. I loved working with him every night. He was doing something completely different. And when you're doing a play and you're doing eight shows a week over time.
And Now The Hard Part
"rudd" Discussed on And Now The Hard Part
"This week global reboot the u. s. china relationship how the biden administration steers relations between washington and beijing could have more impact on the rest of the world than just about any other american policy in the coming years. It is the one country in the world that has the military economic diplomatic capacity to undermine or challenge the rules based order that we care so much about enter determined to defend that was us secretary of state antony blinken interviewed on the cbs. Show sixty minutes last month. His remarks help frame much of our conversation on the show. Today the goal is not to contain china. But have you ever seen china be so assertive or aggressive militarily. No we haven't. I'm raw viagra. While all foreign policies editor in chief. I'm joined today by kevin rudd. He's a former prime minister of australia. Who now serves as the president and ceo of the asia society. Rod is also fluent mandarin speaker and one of the world's preeminent china's scholars. We began our conversation by talking about the growing consensus in washington at china is now a threat to the united states. Both economically and strategically and yet. It's important not to overestimate that threat. The way the united states did occasionally during the cold war with the soviet union which of course led to a nuclear arms race and to unnecessary wars around the american strategic predominance in east asia and the with specific is under direct chinese strategic challenge and that is articulated primarily through the prisons and expanding prisons of chinese military assets in all categories. In that cnn beyond the east asian with specific area. There is a global challenge to the united states. In terms of america's global economic dominance. of course china became the wills largest trading power. Some time ago sooner or later china will become probably the wills largest source of foreign direct investment around the world. Then there looms the question of what will be the relative chinese slice of global capital markets visibility. The americans slots and beyond that again we have unfolding as it were a chinese challenge to the long-term supremacy of the united states. Dala that is i. Think the second big challenge and the third. I would put along these lines. It is a chinese challenge to the preponderance all universal values and norms associated with let's coldly post world war two global settlement and china's ideological challenge to those universal concepts of democracy freedom and human rights with a chinese set of values which are of a different caliber a different quality on different content emanating from china's traditional approach to such questions compounded by the marxist leninist culture which underpins the chinese communist party in power so in aggregate i think there is a regional strategic challenge. There was a global economic challenge including technology and there was a global aviation challenge as well i briefly mentioned the soviet union as one way that some american sometimes compare china to in terms of it being a us competitor. There's also the japan comparison you know in all the economic accusations that today american seem to level against china that it has unfair. Trade practices are unfairly favors domestic funds. All of those accusations were also wants leveled against japan in the nineteen eighty s and then japan's economy saw of fizzled out. But we can't say the same about china can we. The soviet union did not represent a fundamental challenge to american global economic power. it represented a different economic system. And there was a debate at some stage about the actual size of the soviet economy relative. The united states but in the projection of global economic influence across all dimensions of economic pow. Frankly did not exist on the national question. Yes there was a contest of ideas between soviet marxist-leninism and its concept of development and its concept of political dictatorship versus the american will view and that was shop as well but the big difference between the soviet challenge and the chinese challenge is. The chinese challenge is robust in all departments. And that's for. The japan analogy japan. Post war never represented a strategic challenge to the americans strategic domination of east asia with specific. So i wanted to get to how best. The united states should engage china as a competitor. Before we get there. I'm curious about your personal assessment of china's leaders and how they see the world. You sat across the table from the chinese for decades. Now and china's changed a lot in that time its economy is now five times as large as it was twenty years ago. It's the largest engine of global growth. It's the as you pointed out the largest destination for foreign investment biggest trading nation in the world. How do all of these factors change what. It's like to sit across the table from the chinese. When i have encountered xi jinping personally of us this is a person with a profound sense of his country's history profound sense all the history of the chinese communist party profound sense of his moment in history leading apollo now when china is on the threshold of becoming the world's largest economy and therefore is not a shrinking given the historical opportunities which he sees himself having been presented with they do play the long game and therefore the analytical framework is to constantly see this slice of time in a much broader view of one hundred years of potty his trees seventy years of the people's republic of china and what they can achieve in the next ten to twenty years. And that. if you like is with. I have a qualitative advantage of the countries of the collective whist which had driven by more short-term political cycles. So let me push you on that. Then if they have this long term plan in the luxury of being able to have long term plans what do they want twenty years from now. We'll china's hierarchy you priorities in my judgment is relatively clear. The chinese communist party is talking to put out a statement says hero ten real global aspirations that operate that way so what's mine deduction in decades time they want the communist party to be in power and unchallenged. Domestically that's number one number two national unity. Whatever we see. By way of crackdown and sue john and tibet. At the moment and in hong kong will continue to intensive human rights officials today blasted a new national security law in hong kong impose two months ago by china and with its now customary fire. Beijing shot back telling the un to quote stop meddling and that leaves us with the open question of candy by decades and secure taiwan's return which is why we have a problem of monumental proportions looming on this question number three to continue to grow the economy to enhance living standards for the chinese. People sustain the social contract between pocket kiruna virus outbreak. China has signaled that the country is well on its way to full recovery and the government's actions in recent months have set the stage for chinese ambitions across the globe the same time to create the continued fundamentals of chinese national power number four environmental sustainability. Because that's part of the new social contract including on climate number five. Now they want to push the americans further east to the second and ultimately island chain far immunity airplay or him basically earpiece go away to order to ron rodman in to accommodate their aspirations is the taiwan. The south china sea in the east china saying states military aircraft often military activities outside national airspace. On top of that it was built in rhode initiative. Sean is continental burr. Free.
The Mason Minute
Laugh Hysterically (MM #3745)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation. Some say we don't laugh enough these days and it's probably true but I know if I want to laugh hysterically all I have to do is head over to YouTube app. Look up, just one phrase, Paul Rudd, Mac, and Me for the last Seventeen years. Paul Rudd has been coming on the Conan O'Brien show. Whichever network was on whichever variation of his show. He had had any time he was there to promote a clip instead, he would play Young Jeezy clip from a bad eighty knock off from the 1980s called Mac and Me It's been a recurring bit that he's probably done ten or twelve times over the years and literally every time he comes on, he plays a deadpan sets up, whatever clip he's going to do for whatever TV show or movie. He's going to be in and it's always this Mac and Me he did it again the other night for the last time and what did I do? I laughed hysterically then went back to YouTube and played about a half a dozen of them back-to-back. I always know what's coming. So does the audience? And I think so disappointed, but it makes me laugh hysterically. We're looking for things to laugh at these days and I'll tell you what these clips make me laugh and it's an ongoing joke for Seventeen years. We all need to laugh for me. I'm not finding much funnier these days off.
The Mason Minute
Laugh Hysterically (MM #3746)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation. Some say we don't laugh enough these days and it's probably true but I know if I want to laugh hysterically all I have to do is head over to YouTube app. Look up, just one phrase, Paul Rudd, Mac, and Me for the last Seventeen years. Paul Rudd has been coming on the Conan O'Brien show. Whichever network was on whichever variation of his show. He had had any time he was there to promote a clip instead, he would play Young Jeezy clip from a bad eighty knock off from the 1980s called Mac and Me It's been a recurring bit that he's probably done ten or twelve times over the years and literally every time he comes on, he plays a deadpan sets up, whatever clip he's going to do for whatever TV show or movie. He's going to be in and it's always this Mac and Me he did it again the other night for the last time and what did I do? I laughed hysterically then went back to YouTube and played about a half a dozen of them back-to-back. I always know what's coming. So does the audience? And I think so disappointed, but it makes me laugh hysterically. We're looking for things to laugh at these days and I'll tell you what these clips make me laugh and it's an ongoing joke for Seventeen years. We all need to laugh for me. I'm not finding much funnier these days off.
The Mason Minute
Laugh Hysterically (MM #3745)
"The Maison with Kevin Nation. Some say we don't laugh enough these days and it's probably true but I know if I want to laugh hysterically all I have to do is head over to YouTube app. Look up, just one phrase, Paul Rudd, Mac, and Me for the last Seventeen years. Paul Rudd has been coming on the Conan O'Brien show. Whichever network was on whichever variation of his show. He had had any time he was there to promote a clip instead, he would play Young Jeezy clip from a bad eighty knock off from the 1980s called Mac and Me It's been a recurring bit that he's probably done ten or twelve times over the years and literally every time he comes on, he plays a deadpan sets up, whatever clip he's going to do for whatever TV show or movie. He's going to be in and it's always this Mac and Me he did it again the other night for the last time and what did I do? I laughed hysterically then went back to YouTube and played about a half a dozen of them back-to-back. I always know what's coming. So does the audience? And I think so disappointed, but it makes me laugh hysterically. We're looking for things to laugh at these days and I'll tell you what these clips make me laugh and it's an ongoing joke for Seventeen years. We all need to laugh for me. I'm not finding much funnier these days off.
Arrowhead Pride
"rudd" Discussed on Arrowhead Pride
"Mahomes has been on the most viewed television show for the past two years that everyone watches. He's been he's been on the super bowl. Yeah the everyone. In america watches everyone in the world watches. Marvel movies everyone in ant man. That's the one that ruling really flipping popular also a great movie tonight. So you're pulling so you're going to pull from the people in china. Is that where you're adding to this very successful in china. It's the second biggest. Worldwide box office is a matter of fact for the people in paris. That where you're going with. I'm talking about people in memphis and in over his talk in this country then. yeah maybe. it's patrick mahomes. I still think it's paul rudd in the united states and i think it's paul rudd worldwide. I think i've got one. That's bigger about. Walt disney like walt disney is Is a little bigger than moment. Move onto another. Be kidding me i. it's it's the biggest movie studio in the world. A friend of mine by the name adjust vernier would say. Are we getting serious today. I i. I can't wait until i get to go to that vendors part alex so sweet oh i'm gonna go. Oh god yeah god. He's from everywhere and say maybe from kansas city. So let's go with god over them. Cheese walt disney studios literally in kansas city is. It really didn't know that do every day because his childhood home. I really don't like how youtube clip. Patrick mahomes biden knees right here. Larry more might be a little bit more famous. That pet mahomes but but it's close. But not he. I i love it i love it. Some people may get old for by every time. I see you see him on late night shows when he's on foul injuries on everything gets who does he play for the kansas city chiefs or if people in kansas city. Kansas city cheese. They it's it's they're in. And i love that. Sorta don't seriously don't mess with me. Don't do any outtakes to make me look stupid did last week. I'm just saying. I'm just saying if we went to a random city across the county random rule city. Paul rudd walked up to you. I bet that person would know who. Paul rudd is over petrol bombs. I don't think so. I don't i don't think so. I think you have paul rudd bigger than he actually is. He's not. Woody is bigger than harrelson. He's not woody harrelson right now. Yes amongst young people. Yes yeah. I think it would depend on the age group but you just said some. Yeah i don't think so. I mean i've been sitting here thinking. Is he bigger the jason today kiss right now with ted lasts one hundred percent that i think you're right on that he's a movie star lasso. Ted lasted into such. It's got a cult following but it's on apple plus the i've never seen his famous. But paul rudd is is a movie star in a completely different level. He's completely different. Stratosphere than this is the podcast you can cut this up but i forget i need to hold on what level. What level of star paul. Rudd if you compare aleister. He's compare another movie store that you think he's on the same level of Virtually anyone in the marvel cinematic universe. He's chris pratt. Chris hemsworth chris. Evans robert downey junior tier with all of those people. Because he is an ayla star movie star who owned his own superhero franchise. That's low weightless. Because i'm thinking it's not. It's the top of the list. No they're not like the top of the list is like brad pitt and like recognizable. People like pay. Leo and and guys like that yes. I totally agree. Robert deniro like really famous actors like that. Who have been doing it for a long time. Really really successful. All of the people in the marvel cinematic universe right now. They are boxoffice monsters. They make a billion dollars every time they make a movie. You know paul rudd only make three hundred thousand dollars for him. And that's told us our billion they make no martin marvel and disney makeup billion dollars. They generally do that with so when they launched marvel movies they generally paid the actors a small amount of money to start and then they'll give them a percentage if if it really takes off and they all take off because people will go see whatever marvel puts out now because everything they put out his good i paul rudd star but i feel like you just feel like you got him a little higher than scarlett johansson aleister or yes. She's different. she's completely different. She was rod for paul rods in the same tier. I mean i know. I can't go with that i i can't go with and i like paul. I love anchorman. Like he's just. I mean he's been the star of like one movie. The main like of a move that we give a damn about knits ant man like i feel like you've got him like in wealfare tiered farrell. He had a great cameo role in captain. America's civil war headey. Hey second an movie. That was very successful and had a huge role in avengers. Endgame the number one box office film of all time hill. I'm moving on resembles by the way ways. Best averill was in a black highly recommend. No of it is a hacker. Tremendous michelman moving. I've seen it. I mean it's pretty terrible. But i've seen it cabin in the woods..
Arrowhead Pride
"rudd" Discussed on Arrowhead Pride
"Does it. Does it get old. Does it ever get old. Patrick mahomes is on the cover of madden again. There's only been three people who have been on the cover of madden multiple times. Tom brady patrick. Mahomes and john madden only three and they are. They are mahomes in embrace are on it together. Initially i saw. And i might make some people matt here. Initially i saw it was going to be two goats but Now i then they made it the. Mvp edition allographs real issue if it was to goes like i love Mahomes and everything. But he can't he can't be b the goat. There's only one and tom keeps holding him. Tom is the reason why he doesn't probably have three super bowls in d. ford but tom is the reason beating on the road in arrowhead beat him in the super bowl last year so he can't be the but i wonder. Does this get old for people. A kid the city. This doesn't for me because every time you see it. It just rips the city and there is nothing better than every time you see. Patrick mahomes immediately. The next move is kansas city when the state farm commercials with a new jake. I wonder how much how much as he's gotten since he's become the state formed guy. I wonder how much extra he's got that it's that needs to get cut out but anyway But jake from state for a whenever you see him on the state farm commercials adidas commercials or coors like. It immediately makes you think of kansas city. And that's why. I love it and it will never get old for me. That the had the chiefs ever had a guy that is other people's best favorite player outside of the city may really marcus allen briefly at that time maybe not. I don't think tony did tony. Move the needle dawson. Way back in the day dante. No i just don't think i tony. Tony might have been the closest thing that the chiefs had you know. What actually derrick thomas derrick. Thomas might have been that guy now. You'd think there were people it the way that i feel like. I'm in texas urine ear. I'm in houston year in saint. Louis who knows. Steve lives but like i wonder if like you see people walking around with mahomes jerseys ed I've been in other cities in dallas or in In the in chicago. You see people wearing mahomes jersey's you think derrick thomas dirges would be worn not like values. Don't see edge rusher have that often me. Jj watt kind of has a little bit of that appeal. If you're looking for one in the last twenty years that maybe could have this kind. It's different because he's a quarterback. Patrick mahomes is the number one on this us now. Trying to figure out who would be to. Maybe maybe priest holmes just because the fantasy aspect of it there was a little bit of that in the early two thousands but again we're reaching here like nobody has ever even been close to what patrick mahomes is right now. I saw there was a list that the nfl pa put out the other day of the guys in the league right now that have the greatest social media influence so of all the players in the nfl. The the greatest reach social media wise in number one on that list is tom. Brady no surprise he's z. Transcends the sport in a way that very few can patrick mahomes number two and the rest of that top. Five was russell wilson. Jj watt and rob gronkowski. So like for the way that i will do. My fiancee knows you. Rob gronkowski is. She couldn't care less about football. Grow gronk had the tv show but he was doing. What was it. wipe out was he on. That was the everybody loves crock. Just he's fine. He was he was in. He a patriot in the boston area. A huge metropolitan city like he. Wwe for a little bit. Yeah i think him. And tom are the only two players. In this patriots era transcended the patriots like their names were bigger than the patriots brand right. Because you've got a bunch of great players in hall of famers now that played for the patriots over the last twenty years but their brand those players was never bigger than the patriots itself. And i think breathing gronk were the only two that really transcended that and i think that's what's happening right now. With patrick mahomes. I think mahomes i think there are people that are bigger mahomes fans than they are chiefs fans and that's super rare. Yep no he is like for me. I'm lebron fan. And i think there are. Nfl fans that are like that I talked to people here. And i know he's from he's from white house texas but i talked to people here who they love mahomes right and kids that go to school with my son. They're wearing jerseys. They love mahomes. He's their guy. He's our favorite player and it's not just because he went to high school in texas is just. That's that's the star player of the league. So mahomes on the cover of med. Never done get old because it just whenever you see him that means he's generally in a chief jersey and that means it's kansas city that follows behind that and that is a rep. The town baby ripped the town and and like we just haven't had the experience. I don't even know if you could even call an athlete like that. I don't even know if george brit pushed it that way for the royals or anything like that different time to like. That's the other thing is there's just so much more reach now from an athlete than there was thirty five forty years ago because of social media because of espn twenty four hour news. Sports radio like there's just so many more places where these athletes can reach an audience that didn't exist when george brett was in his prime. I this may be a wild question to ask. Is there ever anybody in the history of kansas city. That had as big of an audience as patrick mahomes going to area streaming outfits probably going to be up there residents tech nine. Paul rudd his ant man stop. Paul goes scott lang mahomes and is like. Hey it's really cool to meet patrick mahal thirty. Go take a walk paul. Rudd paul wrote his ant man. He's one of the biggest movie stars in the world. See you are in love with marvel and ant man doesn't mean he's it doesn't touch others. That doesn't mean that. Paul rudd is not one of the biggest movie stars in the world he definitely is but i think mahomes is bigger. My off on that age is no off service drunk. Are you kidding me paul. I think paul rudd is is much more famous than patrick mahomes. You think yes. Paul paul rudd might gig out when he gets in meet. Patrick mahomes because he thinks it's cool and he's a chief's fan or whatever. Paul rudd is much more famous than patrick mahomes. Oh no i can't agree with hundred percent. Paul rudd is a worldwide movie star.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Australian coal exports reportedly banned by China
"Chinese state. Media is reporting today. That china has made official severe restrictions on the import of coal leaving hundreds of millions of tons of the stuff parked haplessly off the chinese coast in ships. That won't be talking. It is a severe and clearly symbolic expression of china's accelerating annoyance with australia. The two countries had long been profitably bound by china's fullness of australia's mineral resources the current episode of monocle. Twenty fours the foreign desk takes a broader look at the china. Australia spat in it. I speak to former australian. Prime minister and former australian diplomat to china kevin rudd. I began by asking him. Just how bad things are got most of us who have been but analysts said -ticipant in its relationship of the last several decades would site that in the near fifty year period since diplomatic relations were established in nineteen seventy two. This is the worst stage that the relationship is raised beds against all measures political diplomatic economic security human rights united. It's all gone right down. The too many contributing factors to this but indirect to question. It's a fifty year low. I think the way to analyze what's unfolding in. The of china relationship is to see it in terms of the normal outworkings all a great cow on the rise in this case but abnormally in this case the rise of a pow which is a one party state with an authoritarian political system. Fewing somewhat mckendall is taken on ole sees as well as seeking to adjust boundaries with its nighters maritime and land by his boundaries that is part of the reality but it does impact not just a straight but other american allies like japan the republic of korea in south southeast asia those in central asia even the russian federation bubble miata hand. What you've had is. An australian government said somewhat incapable differentiating between what i would describe as the operational characteristics of effective china's strategy and confusing that deliberately or otherwise on a continuing basis with a declaratory strategy which ends up being driven by domestic political imperatives. So it is. In fact the call these factors. In imprecise kerr relation with each other which actually produces the net result and frankly. It's an ungodly miss. The time for circuit breaker has well and truly come to prison. The mood for such circuit breaker has not yet arrived. But if you are not just necessarily this australian government but an australian government is there no grounds at all for concern about sinister designs. China may have on australia at this point. In recent months and years we've seen detention of australian journalists in china. There's been varies. Influence peddling scandals strode in michael burgess the director general of aco claims. There's more espionage. Dwayne australia right now than there was during the cold war. The key point here is what we conclude domestically in australia as constituting real threats to try national security by giving janis actions whether it's in state basis cyber cyber-attacks influence operations against his train. Politicians will the media or other such activities in dealing effectively. With each of those challenges it is not necessarily mandated that she didn't take out a mega fan every second day and proclaimed that from the rooftops is the constant differential i seek to explain between an operational strategy as opposed to a declaratory strategy. My advice to premise morrison repeatedly has been do more. Silas do more is in fact. A series of concrete measures enhancing on national security pows enhancing now intelligence assets enhancing fundamental economic cow enhancing out calculation growth in strengthening our alliances and relationships with countries. Around the world of just the united states but in southeast asia and beyond as well and that is gonna separate matter from proclaiming. I said every second tuesday morning. The original There's about two landing bondi beach by the chinese amphibious force. It's quite a different matter. Intelligent mature national strategy. Understand the difference between the two and the owners say practical example. The difference between the two look for example japan on a daily basis weekly bi assists in the last several years handled its relationship with china relatively stable notwithstanding the fact that japan is a annella. United states. Big is a liberal. Democracy see has tonners single loudest economic D has american military bases on its soil and e as a rolling territorial dispute with china chinese china sea of caucus data yet. Despite that the japan china economic relationship prestige relatively unmolested. Why because by the albay and supersonic plaisted looney eternal shall we say eastern virtue of shutting up from time to time as opposed to simply proclaiming everything from the rooftops that's effective strategy as opposed to opening your mouth full of time which is primarily driven ministries case by range of domestic political imperatives. Which in turn complicate the foreign policy agenda is saving to prosecute.
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Paul Rudd hands out cookies to voters in the rain
"To cookies as they waited in Luigi's in lines and in the rain. Jane to vote in the general election, which is this coming Tuesday? By the way, Paul read brave the pouring rain to think waiting voters with the sweet snack You said. I want to say thank you to coming out and voting. You know,
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Paul Rudd hands out cookies to voters in the rain
"Yesterday, People were lined up in the rain outside the Barkley center in Brooklyn to vote and a guy with gloves and a mask started walking around handing out individually wrapped cookies to people while they're waiting in line. That guy was actor Paul Reid. And he decided to treat people who are standing in the rain to vote with free cookies. No, he'd make himself he bought them, but still, it's a nice
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Hollywood's Good Looking Debate
"There is a great Hollywood debate igniting as we speak and we need to talk about it. So it started with this tweet from one of the executive producers of one day at a time asking what male actor is the perfect level of good looking. But also seems fun funny and Goofy twitter collectively seems to think the answer is Paul Rudd. D You guys agree with that? I do. Agree with I. That is like the perfect. He's handsome. He's attractive. He's not intimidatingly attractive. But he's cute and he's also has a lot of personality. So he's just like he's he's Fine look you know what I mean like he's not like the sexiest man alive, but he's got something. Out. Here. Beers. I think he is sexy and especially when he did a man and he was only like chicken breasts, Barroga's leading up to it with all training. Okay. He turned to ninety Zadie looks going on. Who would be your picks? Yes and who did you pick? You know what is going to have to go down a rabbit hole. So follow me here. My pick was Chris Threat back in parks and rec days where he was a goofy and hard. But didn't know he was hot before he got around all hank, we'll see. The hottest NF heiress God is at that time and you know the minute he got hot s. she was like wait what. I didn't sign up for this. This is not what I wanted to go back to the. Keep on eating your Rama noodles like do not get on this diet. So. Unfortunately. The Globe show inevitable like it just happens. No matter what and it's. It's so welcomed by the person that's going through. But the people surrounding it is like I did want this. I chose Zach braff. I don't know. He was the that popped into my mind. Don't you think that makes sense like he's definitely sexy, but not overtly sexy, and he's just he has more of a specific luck. He's not liked so like he's kind of on that call ride. Oh this. Never, thought that he could. Kind Kinda. See when he's in a good suit like right there in the nice tie women minute. We were we supposed to pick someone that wasn't like overtly beautiful, but just like attractive, like has a thing. It's. Assignment I guess. So everyone just. Zach Braff to be employed. That's when he is at his sexiest is when he's consistently employ and that hasn't happened for quite some time. So he's not that sexy anymore. Why? Don't they every time I do see that graph weather that Craig I saw him at the Hollywood bowl, he always had the hottest girl with him.
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‘Clueless’ Is Totally Hollywood’s Defining Teen Movie
"Years ago Sunday, the world was introduced to share Dion and tie as Clueless debuted in theaters. Directed by Amy Heckerling. The comedy followed the trio of trend obsessed but well meaning high schoolers in Beverly Hills. They navigated teen life friendship and romance. Clueless was ahead, earning just shy of 61 million bucks worldwide, about 100 3 million in today's dollars and also made a star out of Alicia Silverstone and introduced us to future stars, including Paul Rudd's Donald Phase on Jeremy Sisto on the late Brittany
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Understanding the border dispute between India and China
"Together China in India account for more than one third of the entire population of the world, and if you believe the predictions of Keisha Mahbubani, remember him. He's been a skit on this program. He's the distinguished Singaporean intellectual. He says the future is Asian, and it's China's and India's to shame. But as my next guest points out. There, a deep historical tensions between these two budding global superpowers, which might make that impossible. China and India share land border in the Himalayas which has been in dispute since nineteen, sixty two, and it's been a pretty quiet style for decades, however, since May tensions have been rising nuclear powers facing off in a remote corner of the Himalayas, the disputed Kashmir region. This is the first the classroom this border in forty five years Indian government confirmed twenty of its soldiers were killed in the clash. China seems to now be making new claims to territory now. Will this be the event that pushes India away from Chana. Chana for good, and what does it mean for the rest of the World Tom V. Madan is a senior fellow in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution. In Washington. She's the author of a new book called Fateful Triangle. How China shut US India relations during the cold. War She's got an article in this month's foreign. Affairs magazine on how China is losing India Tovey. Welcome to between the lines. Thank you for having me Tom now. The border dispute between China and India has probably been the most tasteful. Conflict in the world. No one died and forty five years. What sit this conflict of? It was set off because of some early moves in early May that. had. Brought forward troops and equipped military equipment at different points on the China. India boundary the line of actual control. In the western sector particularly of their border, which is eastern Hlavac and at multiple points, what we saw was attempts to change the status quo whether it was to establish a permanent presence in built in areas, but both sides claim. Or attempts to stop a Indian patrols from moving in those areas which they have traditionally done. That's set the context. It's been going on since at least early May. What we actually saw what was happening to June, sixth meeting between senior military commanders was that they had agreed to a process of de-escalation and disengagement but something went very wrong in the course of this de-escalation. And this is where the incident took place. Now this particular incident has just been a larger in scale and an this whole stat of larger scale, but also regrets aggressiveness and the ones we've seen before, and there are reports that both countries are deploying some serious weapons to the bases close to the border. Is this just posturing, or is there a serious risk of Esscalation I? Think these kind of situation. There's always a risk of escalation. We've seen at least three. faceoffs three major face before this one between the Chinese and Indian military's in two, thousand, thirteen, two, thousand, fourteen in two thousand seventeen This one is could have larger in scale. We've seen as we did. On June fifteenth that even though they have traditionally had a whole series of agreements, standard operating procedures protocols in place between the two countries to avoid the kind of Esscalation we saw injured fifteenth. They clearly are not sufficient anymore, so let's put this in a broader historical context. China and India and went to war in nineteen, sixty two over the border. Now this of course was at the heart of the Cold War. Taibbi take us back to the geopolitical context of the time what was going on? By the time, the nineteen sixty sixty-two war broke out between China and India. You've seen a few years from about nineteen fifty seven about five years already of rising China Idiot tensions you've seen. The Indians relies that The Chinese did not consider. The boundary settled that they were building. A roads through territory India sought was India's. You saw scuffles skirmishes at between. The. Two sides patrols at various points on the boundary. You also saw the escape of the Lama. At a number of Tibetan. Refugees remain to stay in India in one, thousand, nine, hundred, nine, which the Chinese soil with deep suspicion and suspected that the US and you had worked together to engineer about escape. And, so you seem kind of rising tensions between China and India and at the same time you see you saw. The US India actually because in a national park because of their shared concerns about China actually starting to move closer towards each other for the for the the US This saw a in democratic India as both Jew potential, a political counterbalance, but also democratic contrast to soviet-backed Communist China accident, very interested in supporting it. N India welcomed that support, and so that was the. what was? Preceded that sixty to war, but which occurred when the Chinese decided. To move what they call the self defense a counterattack. And in nineteen, sixty two. Move across across the boundary took and defeated India quite badly, which laughed a number of different. It's a it's left a lot of historical baggage. The only major war the Union army has lost
True Mysteries of the Pacific Northwest
Pacific Coast Pirate Battle
"Welcome to kiss Miss Mysteries signed. Your host could crumb true to the name of this podcast, which is true mysteries of the Pacific northwest. Pirates off Oregon's Pacific Northwest Coast. Pick up any book on the Golden Age Pirates sixteen fifty to seventeen thirty, and it would have you believe that they sailed the Atlantic only, but in fact when the English begin actively pursuing what they called privateers and hanging entire crews, many pirates fled attempted to sail around. Cape Horn southernmost tip, south, America but few survive with the Atlantic and Pacific collided strong winds, large waves, predictable, current and icebergs challenged every vessel. Pirates formed gala. -Tarian orders based on elected officials mutual trust they did. Did make some crews captured vessels. Walk the plank. Yes, that really did happen. In eighteen twenty two captain of the British ship Rudd poll was made to walk the plank when his ship was captured by the pirate ship, Emmanuel before turning himself in Captain Kidd buried his treasure buried treasure so war on Long Island. He was hanged for piracy in London before it could retrieve it, but for two hundred years from fifteen, sixty, five, eighteen, fifteen, a Spanish treasury across the Pacific from Alka Poco Laden. With gold and silver. Silver that had been caravan across the isthmus of two one to pack from there. They sailed to new Spain at the time Manila unchallenged until sixteen, Ninety nine late. In that year, the five master pirate ship Peach made the run around Cape Hope Captain by Jack Berryman. The Spanish treasure galleon left behind by the rest of the Spanish fleet was just ten days out of the port of all Caputo Cho sailing. It'll lacy five knots Minoa when they were intercepted by another vessel when the peach pulled within five hundred yards. Yards of the and unfurled Charlie Roger and fired her twenty two cannon on the heavily Laden gallion without hesitation captain, Fernandez distant million unloaded. His sixteen cannons in response and beat a hasty retreat up the coast, of North, America, no match speed because of the gold and silver. He carried the PASSAIC couldn't lose the peach. The San Jose carried eighty pounds of goal, twenty-six tons of on coin, silver and four hundred thousand pesos for ten days with what the damage Rudder Santeria led the peach on a wild chase up. Up Coast of North America finally accurate off the rugged coast, the captain of the peace saw his chance and sailed to within a hundred yards of the guy, in for the best effect of short range cannons, and let fire all twenty two guns in a final show of defiance South Jose, unleashed her sixteen cannons by chance they hit the powder stores or the peach, blowing the ship to splinters, but it was too late for the San Jose sinking by the Stern, the captain gathered the ship's log perched on the bow. Bow made his final entry dated seventeen o one January half of his crew of sixty were lost in the final battle the remains managed wrath from the decking paddle through the surging forty degree water towards shore with the sun, high overhead, the sea retreated leaving the San Jose on Solid, seafloor on her starboard side, wrath and crew, high and dry captain until you crossed himself. As he watched a hundred foot wave sweeping from the ocean, the final entry in the log read longitude forty five point five one six degrees. Degrees north latitude one twenty three point nine, one nine four degrees west with a very slight adjustment of just a couple degrees, the final resting place of the treasure Galleon Song Jose is just off the Oregon coast, a little out from the town of Cohen,
True Mysteries of the Pacific Northwest
Pirate Myths and Mysteries
"And for the next week or so. I will be focusing on tyrus during the Golden Age from sixteen fifty to about seventeen thirty and in my ongoing research for these podcasts. I have had a few surprises one. Pirates DID BURIED TREASURE TO PIRATES. Made MAPS FOR THOSE TREASURE. I will be producing evidence of this also. Pirates did make other pirates and English Spanish ship captains walk the plank pick up any book on the Golden Age Pirates. Sixteen fifty to seventeen thirty and it would have you believe that they sailed the Atlantic but in fact when the English began actively pursuing what they call privateers and hanging entire crews many fled attempting to sail around Cape Horn. The southernmost tip of South America but few survived where the Atlantic and Pacific collided strong winds large waves unpredictable current and icebergs challenge every vessel. Pirates formed egalitarian. Orders based on elected officials and mutual trust. They did make some crews of captured vessels walk the plank in eighteen twenty two captain of the British ship. Rudd poll was made to walk the plank when his ship was captured by the pirate ship. Emmanuel before turning himself in Captain Kidd buried his treasure somewhere on long island also around area will discuss Madagascar. He was hanged for piracy in London before it could retrieve it for two hundred years. Fifteen sixty five to eighteen fifteen. The Spanish Treasury Cross Pacific from Alka Poco laden with gold and silver had been caravan across the isthmus there from there. They sailed to new Spain at the time Manila unchallenged until sixteen ninety nine. It was late in that year. That the five masted pirate ship made the run around Cape Hope captain by check Berryman. The Spanish treasure galleon left behind by the rest of the Spanish fleet was just ten days out of port of Al Capone sailing. Lazy five knots for Manila when they were intercepted by another vessel when the peach pulled within five hundred yards of the Galleon and unfurled the Jolly Roger and fired. Twenty two cannon on the heavily Laden. Gallia well that was all it took without hesitation. Captain Fernandez de the Tinian unloaded his sixteen cannons in response and beat a hasty retreat up the coast of North America. No Vashem's speed for the gold. Silver she carried the San. Jose couldn't lose the peach. A Jose carried eighty pounds of gold twenty-six tons of unkown silver and four hundred thousand pesos. For ten days with a damaged rudder Santellien led the peach on a wild chase up. The coast of North America finally anchoring off a rugged coast the captain of peach saw his chance sailed to within a hundred yards the guy and for best effect of short range cannons and let fire twenty two guns in a final show of defiance. The San Jose unleashed her sixteen cannons. And by chance hit the powder storage of the each flowing. This ship to splitters but it was too late for the San Jose sinking by the Stern. Captain gathered the ship's log and perched on the bow made his final entry dated January. Seventeen O one. Half of his crew sixty were lost in the final battle. The remains managed to wrath from the decade paddle to the surging forty degree water toward shore with the sun high overhead. The Sea retreated leaving the San Jose on Solid C. Four on her starboard side the raft high and Dry Captain. Sotoudeh crossed himself as he watched one hundred foot. Waves sweep in from the ocean. The final entry in the log. Read Longitude Forty five five sixteen degrees north latitude one twenty three ninety one and ninety four degrees west with a slight adjustment of just a couple degrees the final resting place of that treasures. Scallions San Jose is just off the Oregon coast off the little town of Nice. Colin perhaps a mile out from the famed ghost forest. You see the last great cascade. Subduction zone earthquake occurred early in January. Seventeen O one. The famous Oregon Ghost florist was once a Sitka. Spruce forest dropped twenty five feet during that quake justice shifting place of pushed. What's left of that forced to the surface? A fascinating side at low tide. Perhaps in a few years if the place continued shift the remains of the treasure. Galleon San Jose may appear on that same
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Kevin Rudd on anarchy in the post COVID-19 world order, and could stable democracy be a reality in Iraq?
"Former Prime Minister Kevin right on the geopolitical consequences of the pandemic. He predicts the coming post covered. Anneke plus Iraq believe it or not. It's future looks brought today than it has an any point in the past Dick. I'd stay with us for my chat with Linda Robinson from the Rand Corporation. She'll tell us while we should not give up on Baghdad's fragile. Democracy Corona virus continues to take a toll on the health of nations around the world. One thing has become clear the winners and losers not who we might have expected a year ago. The virus is taking an uneven and unpredictable. Course through the world defying. I usual assumptions about power and resilience. Some small poor countries being left relatively unscathed all powerful prosperous nations. I've been ravaged. So what does this mean for global order and for the strategic robbery between China and the United States? Will everything change or is the virus? Mealy accelerating trends that were already in place. Former prime minister of Australia. Kevin Rudd is the President of the Society Policy Institute in New York. He's written an essay in the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs magazine in New York. It's called the coming postcode Enki and he joins me now. From Queensland's Sunshine Coast Kevin Rudd. Welcome back to between the lawns. Good to be with you on between the lines. Now you'll recent essays titled The coming Postcode Anneke Y Anneke. You're good real turns color of international relations you would know that realists assume that. Anneke is in fact the natural state All the International Society of states rent was Headley Bull who wrote about this crowd along time ago and Australian realist and Australian realist. Ten within the real documents that order actually represents the exception rather than the rule So why do I argue this I argue it because the current order as we've done since forty five is underpinned by and large by US geopolitical pound Gio economic power secondly That's become challenge at least by China Thirdly the Cova crisis has turbo charge The hit on American real and perceived power. But there's a full factor as well. Which is the impact which the Cova crisis has on China's Powell not least the damage to its economy the flow through effect to its ability to spend on the amounts of money on its military and on the belt and road initiative example but more importantly international perceptions of China in the developed in the developing world. So where do we end up? We end up not with The same old order as in the past but a slow and steady drift towards more anoc order. We're both China and the US damaged and the institutions of global governance with the UN. The will bank the National Monetary Fund the G. Twenty etc become increasingly the terrain for geopolitical battle. Between these two wounded POWs a K. Sunday the country's the victory he but some analysts say that China's heavy handed approach eccentric lockdowns violence. That's been a political win for Xi Jinping in Matt strengthened the Central Authority of the communist regime. How would you respond to them? Well let's look at That argument within China itself. There's been a huge hit on the accompany And as a result of that China will have its worst gross numbers twenty twenty the Ted in over half a century since the end of the Cultural Revolution almost That is huge. It undermines She Jinping's China Drain which was One pillar of which was for China to quadruple. Its G. D. DP by twenty twenty measured against two thousand levels this single year of itself. Economic non-performance blows a hole amidships in that and then secondly on top of that. Tom You've got the problem which arises in terms of internal political debates within China so and I think some growing levels of resistance to Xi Jinping's on leadership and finally as I mentioned before The blowback around the world in terms of the economic damage To economize both developed and developing causing a big question mark to a rise in terms whether China has in fact being the risk to the world's best friend because of the outbreak of this virus. So these factors I think. Qualify the overall argument you hear from some the China's authoritarian model in managing the crisis domestically translates into a geopolitical win the China internationally. I don't think that necessarily holes walk conversations. Do you think heaven. I going on right now in Beijing over China's place in the world I mean is the division division over this so-called Wolf Warrior this is the and diplomacy we often hear about a division between that Wolf Warrior. Diplomacy versus say China's desire to promote soft power. Chinese politics in some respects is not dissimilar to elements of politics. We and other countries. That is you find nationalist. Ten internationalists you find a local ists globalists' you find audio logs versus as it were reformers and pregnant at this and so the as political system while it's Control by Xi Jinping's leadership still has all these tensions and personalities within it so the debates now I think are of a twofold. How do we allow this to happen? In the first place what failed in terms of the processes insistence China put in place after the Saas Crisis of two thousand and three to prevent a pandemic or epidemic as it was then from happening again. The second debate is how the Hillary you get the economy back together again given the China a economy with forty percent of Gdp comes from the traded six or the economy and International. Trade is being blend. Bits by this crosses and the other debate again between nationalists internationalised is the one. You've just touched on the Tom. Which is China's wolf worried diplomats out there launching attacks against any critique of China's performance On the one hand defend the party's legitimacy and on the other hand older more seasoned diplomat saying this isn't actually contributing much to the improvement of China's global image those discussions and debates underway. At the moment we're talking about this wolf warrior diplomacy. What do you make of China's recent boycotts threats of boycotts of Australian Exports Bali? Beef what what's going on well as I've said in other recent interviews since those public statements by the China's ambassador Australia it's unacceptable in my view for any ambassador accredited to any country to receive public threats against the host country In City five years of more dealing with the Australian China relationship I don't recall previous Chinese ambassadors of having done that not by any Australian diplomat ever having done that irrespective of the crisis of the day with was ten on all the things that I went through when I was in office etc so I think as a matter of shall we say diplomatic practice. What occurred then was regrettable as as being some of the hotline commentary. Which emanated from the Chinese nationalist media? the bottom line is however the Chinese nationalists have seen The effectiveness All the some of these sorts of measures when applaud various countries in the past sorts of economic leverage which China replied to no way out to no way through the Nobel Prize Committee Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to a famous Chinese dissident And I've also seen how those Economic Leverage points of work with various of the Europeans. So this is not alien to the Chinese playbook my argument about China's Australia's management of The relationship in prison is that if the Australian government's of the view and a view I in general support that there needs to be an independent international inquiry as to the origins the virus transmission of the virus notifications to the WHO and threw them to the world community etc. Then again to put that Ford isn't as trade in government and then do some work on it. I get a few other governments to come along with you an advance that through the multilateral machinery which rather than just blow it out as a thought bubble That's the way which you do. Real things in the international community rather than I. Fear sometimes pitching a diplomatic initiative primarily for domestic political leverage into straighter. What complicates matters? Further is president trump's theory that the virus was leaked from a lab in Wuhan and raises the question. Why would China agree to enquiry without losing this between the lines on? Abc Radio National. The familiar voice. You're hearing is former prominence to Kevin. Rudd is now president of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. We've been talking about his article in the current issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. Kevin we'll talking about China and how it's paid a price as a result of this current ivars. Let's turn to the United States. How badly damaged is the use in your judgement? I mean we'll recover reasonably quickly With a change of administration in November or does the damage go deep. Perhaps too deep for recovery has been deep damage politically. The the. The House is a divided house within the United States. Those of us who have followed. Us politics of the many years have rarely seen it This divisive and that actually is a real factor in terms of constructing a post presidential election national consensus on how America engages the World. And the future. American politics has become so binary including on America's own future will view on the economic damage. It's huge. This is the biggest hit on newest economy at least since nineteen forty-six and the recovery from the war and probably since the depression the end of the depression and thirty three So this takes a while to recover But the American economy know a history of resilience. Look what happened after the global financial crisis? But well I was going to make the point to is enormous capacity for change and renewal. I mean you think about its recovery from the civil war that oppression in Vietnam. You being a bit too pessimistic. Kevin. Well I live in the United States and I actually listened to the debate on back in Australia now and when my American interlocutors Republican and Democrat Friends of mine over twenty years who A positive let's call it. The Foreign Policy National Security Policy Machinery signed that it's become increasingly hard to forge consensus these days across the aisle on America's behavior in the world That is a real issue. Then it's not just my external analysis it's part of the internal analysis within the US itself. Do I think the United States can come through the domestic political Malays and the Economic Destruction? Which has occurred? Yes I do. Because it's remarkably resilient country But I think a precondition is that We see a Democrat. Win this November it's not that. I am a A cheerleader for Joe Biden. Personally I barely know the man Bought he's lucky to put together a mainstream Competent Foreign Policy and National Security Policy Tame as opposed to Frankly the chaotic nature of the trump administration on most foreign and national security policy questions. And that I think is necessary for America to rebuild. Its alliances abroad rebuild. Its credibility in the eyes of the risks of the will and to overcome what has been an extraordinary period where America rather than taking the lead in the global recovery From the virus both in public health systems and economic terms as simply being missing in action and in fact the unable to contain it's the damage domestically
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Relisha Rudd reported missing six years ago in Washington DC
"Six years ago eight year old relation ride disappeared from a DC homeless shelter she hasn't been seen since Sunday friends and family gathered once more vowing never to give up looking for her today miss them or by car photos of what religion what might look like at the age of fourteen are handed down to the northeast DC hotel where the girl was last seen on video with the janitor of a DC homeless shelter who police believe abducted her he took his own life shortly after but Reid was never found Anderson long organized the gathering on the sixth anniversary of rubs disappearance he says the goal to generate sits in the service to run remote X. men I am still hopeful that the baby girl is still alive rod's grandmother Melissa young also holding on to hope and this one is the brand is hoping you should be flown
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Sell Or Stay? Australia's Fire Zone Experiment
"Australia is still recovering from bushfires destroyed. More than two thousand homes. Some of those homes may not be rebuilt. The government of one Australian state has historically offered to purchase empty. Lots where fire has destroyed homes. The goal is to help people moved to safer places but NPR's Rebecca Hersher reports that there was this crucial flaw in how that policy was rolled out. Donna Wilson late to cigarette and pollster truck out of the parking lot at the real estate firm. She manages in King Lake Victoria just bicycle idea from. Hey Ya damn houses. To houses went as in went up in flames on February seventh. Two thousand nine bushfire destroyed a huge chunk of this town. This whole straight pretty much weight. The flames moved so quickly that many people couldn't escape one hundred. Seventy three people died in a matter of hours most of them in and around king leak thousands of homes were destroyed three days later then. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd address the Australian parliament the seventh February. We become each national memory as a day of disaster of death and of morning. Black Saturday as it came to be called was Australia's most devastating modern bushfire event five times more deadly than the country's most recent fires and one of the questions that emerged afterward was whether all the houses that earned should be rebuilt. Maybe it was too dangerous. The solution was to try a set of policies. That would give people a choice. You can either build a new house. That was more fire resistant or sell your land to the government and move somewhere else. Wants land was sold to the government. Home could never be built on it again. It was an experiment. The assumption among policymakers was that the more traumatized a homeowner was by the fires. The more likely they would be to sell and relocate and Donna Wilson says to some extent that was true. It was a a godsend for little king. Lake is a small town. So Wilson knew a lot of the people who are coming into a real estate office after the fires and many of them were really struggling. Everything they owned was gone. Many of them had lost family or neighbors in the fire so selling their land to the government and preventing anyone from living there again was both simple and reassuring national. They couldn't deal with a all. They dislike that idea that no no build on that block. But as the so-called buyback scheme unfolded it became clear that it wasn't working for everyone. A key problem was the detained almost two years for the government to commit to it. And in the meantime people had already decided what to do even people who had nearly died in the fires last onto Kookaburra court. Then you will arrive at your destination on one hundred five degree day in February of this year. Npr producer Meredith. Rizzo and I drove the half hour from King Lake Down to flower gale. A town of about six hundred people surrounded by tree covered ridges. It's almost eleven years to the day since black Saturday. High joke the seventy year old Joe. Millburn takes us into his new living room. Which is right where his old living room used to be. In fact on black Saturday Joe was sitting right here reading when the power went out it was evening and I looked over the to the window between the Kurds and it was a red stripe and before sunset so when the front and the sky was read within an hour his entire neighborhood was on fire. He remembers trying to get to his neighbor's house for help. And I looked up and this is the only time I thought it was not die. The fight was about. It muscle he and his neighbors and their grandchildren piled into two cars and drove through the smoke and flames to an empty field. That had already burned. They watched as the fire devoured. The ridges. Joe's house was gone. His fire insurance policy provided enough to build a new house and he thought that was the only option available to him so less than a year after the fire he went for it outside the building by the time. Now it's going to do. The BUYBACK MISSED OUT AGAIN. Story my life by the time the government was ready to pay people like Joe for their land. He was already living in his new house. I wouldn't build this and in the decade. Since the forest has re grown the fire danger is high. Officials recognized that the delays in rolling out. The buyback offer made it difficult for many people to use it. Craig Lapsley was. Victoria's Fire Services Commissioner after the two thousand nine blazes leaks acution took forever and it was extremely frustrating. Make decisions so what did I do in the end? Most people who lost their homes on Black Saturday did not sell to the government and many people rebuilt houses in places with very high fire risk but Lapsley says he thinks that offering buybacks was a good idea especially when that option was coupled with more stringent building standards. Those are lessons that other parts of Australia and the US are looking to as they grapple with how to help people make safer decisions about where and how to live Rebecca Hersher NPR news.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
Plan to Cut U.S. Troops in West Africa Draws Criticism From Europe
"Look look first at NATO the the actual military chiefs of rich Jew shortly to convene in Brussels the United States brost hat chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley has burned one interesting acting item on the agenda in advance prefiguring a potential drawdown of American forces in West Africa. This is extremely likely to prompt and unenthused response from France in particular which is extensively deployed a theater which it believes not without reason is a key frontline in the ongoing global campaign against Islamist extremism. Mary what's what's going on here. Won't use the United States Losing interest abruptly in West Africa. Well I think there are two reasons. one of them is because president trump is specially I think The top brass in American intelligence. They are very fixed on what they see As the future threat coming from China and that they are increasingly concentrating their resources looking in that direction the other thing and is that trump came to office and this is often forgotten Saying that he wanted to stop American engagement in in foreign wars. And this I think was one of the one of the reasons why he was elected. It was very popular policy For a lot of Americans and it remains so but right through his time as president trump has faced quite a lot of opposition from the top brass about cutting back on Americans abroad have been various attempts. He tried to pull Americans out of Afghanistan. The top brass objected. He tried to pull Americans out of Syria. Immediate media outcry from all the allies and saying he was betraying the Kurds. He tried to pull out of Iraq. Similar things West Africa could have basinas. Gene is a sort of slightly soft touch because the only people he's going to offend particularly by that again to be the French as we've seen well on the subject of the French being offended Jonathan they going to be aren't they and not without reason France already has four and a half thousand troops deployed in West Africa. There's two one hundred twenty more due to go shortly And it's not like they've been doing nothing night. They have found somebody to fight once they got there. Oh Yes yes. They've been very active. There and suffered suffered quite a few casualties as part of that. But also this fits for the Frans into a broader attempt by president. Emmanuel McCall to reset reset France's relationship with its former colonies in Africa lens going ahead on the economic front and on other fronts And and I think the question here is how much France wants to take responsibility for this region of the world how much it sees this. Moore's wars an international global Issue which the. US should continue to be involved with Mary. You made the accurate point. The trump's big pitch in two thousand sixteen was that he would bring troops home that America would not engage itself in pointless ridiculous interminable wars overseas etc.. He he probably does understand that the best pitchy can make this. November Is along the same lines. He he walked a very narrow path. Victory in two thousand sixteen but if he can go back the American people in two thousand twenty and say the economy's all right. I haven't started any stupid. That's probably his best shot. That being the case Do we wonder how nervous other NATO military chiefs are going to be the prospect of trump actually. Winning this thing is then possible that the arrest of NATO really has to stop thinking about the United States as the cornerstone of the alliance. Well I think that quite a lot of NATO but especially in the European Union That sense has really been strengthening. Ever since trump came to office there was quite a lot of diffidence Shall we say through the campaign. When trump seemed to cast aspersions on the future of NATO suggesting that it wasn't necessarily in US interest to Continue to be in NATO And you saw the Russians from that right across Europe but especially interestingly in Britain of course but also in eastern Central Europe where they see the United States and NATO in particular the protector. The A big protector of their security against Russia. Now it seems to me talk though Trump seemed to have been brought round a bit Um about the sort of survivability and relevance of NATO nonetheless that Trepidation in Europe remains and we've seen seen just in the last few days With a paper I think originating in the British military Where they say the new British government? When it does it's it's promised Security and defence review has got to look ahead to a time when the United States may and not be Engaged as it is in Europe and when the UK will have to look to being more autonomous in defense security terms and that is a complete rethink For All the British military your finds itself in classically horns Komo whatever cliche One canoes there on the one hand they want the United States to remain Invoke very very involved in NATO and if one is on his to be the main pair in NATO and supplier of troops And so on but at the same time particularly with trump in the White House. They don't want America to dominate dominate. When NATO is going so you get this whole debate about where is NATO? After the end of the Cold War Matt calls from about it being brain dead and having to rethink its future. Sure and so on. But you're has first of all to decide what role it sees for the United States and whether that allies with what trump things a couple. Let's move on now to the rare problem of what a retired. Pope should do with his time. Pope's usually leave the office of course only when recalled all to barracks by the omnipotent overlord but benedict the sixteenth bucked. This tradition in two thousand and thirteen when he handed in the big hat voluntarily since then benedict addict has mostly maintained inappropriate silence but he broke it a few weeks back to speak up in defense of priestly. Celibacy apparently concerned by reports that his successor Pope Francis Francis favored the church taking a more relaxed attitude. Will it now appears that Benedikt is walking it back. His name will be removed from future editions of the book in which he made his feelings known Mary. First of all It's obviously not possible to know the mind of a retired Pope Benedict the sixteenth sixteenth. But why would he be assuming that this point that anybody cares what he thinks. Well I think because he still has the rank this extraordinary sort of rank of Pope Emeritus America's extraordinary thing. I'm opposed America's you think he keeps on these credit card. Well that doesn't the hotel upgrade but by keeping the title even emeritus That puts tim effectively on a par with the current pope And I think that was always going to create difficulties and it's probably remarkable really that we haven't seen gene similar difficulties until now But I think that's also when you when you look at the two characters when you look at Pope Benedict as being What appeared a very reticent very theologically based very traditional minded German pope hope? And you look at Pope Francis who's latin-american And this in fact is where this whole troubles risen. Because he's talking about parts of the Amazon Wurzburg ver-very difficult priests. This argument is being going on for quite a long time as to whether if lifted the celibacy requirement. Then maybe it would be easier to find priests for those very remote remote areas But it does seem to me that in terms of character as well as in terms of everything else you're looking at two very different people and also a church which house has still a very strong conservative. Whatever the president pope says tries to do has a very very conservative lobby Maybe majority he I don't know and which you know finds it useful to appeal to the power of the Pope Emeritus. Jonathan an ice will confess to our listeners that I am not myself in especially accomplished a Catholic theologian. But you think I am. I'm hoping you know more about about this than I do. Just benedict the sixteenth quoted views on the issue in question itself. He says it doesn't seem possible to realize both vocations by which he meant the priesthood and marriage simultaneously. Now other married people in my experience have jobs boy. Is this one any different because When you become? I'm a priest as I understand it celibacy is part of your Decision to remove yourself from the material every every day human world and become somebody somewhat different Maria. I would like to expand this conundrum to the more general principle. Here which is which is what happens happens when people leave high office once you should that be the end of it once you are off the stage as it were should you therefore just shut up. Well I think One of the reasons may be the reason Currently for the continued existence of the House of Lords in the UK. is exactly I'm going to give a sort of position and role For people who have I think the current terminology is stepped back from public life But they can also make trouble even when they're in the Lord's even in what is regarded as subordinate position. vis-a-vis the comments I mean. We saw That Margaret Thatcher Entre gave her successor. John Major very hard time when he was in office And it's been I think it's quite difficult for people who've been to that extent engaged engaged on the front line Actually to say nothing when they see or seems to them that they're successor is behaving behaving such a foolish way when you suddenly become used to that and when you're still relatively young I mean that's the one has a number of quite young a young presidents prime ministers and so on retiring. Tony Blair Bill Clinton others who I think will find it very difficult just to say ongoing off to rotate long walks in the countryside. And say nothing I mean I. I'm sympathetic to that to an extent because it must be the heck of it adjustment from having the sort of the world hang. Hang on your every word to suddenly you know. Once you've sort of signed a piece of paper handed off nobody caring anymore but is there Jonathan away that you can do you. I guess constructive backseat driving. I mean I've just come back from Australia. Where our current Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been weathering? The bushfire crosses to a chorus of criticism. Some of it from one of his predecessors Kevin Rudd who broke with the protocol of differential respect and sank the Bhuttan with what unmistakably like relish the way that you can actually be helpful as a former officeholder. Yes I mean you can bring the wealth experience that you've had and good judgement judgement etcetera etcetera To to bear if your success was wanted of course they may not want they may not want somebody who was there and was perhaps more successful than them sitting on their shoulder the whole time so. It's very very difficult situation. I think you'd have a lot of ex-leader pitas find their way into leading a foundation for good works and so on but almost inevitably they get caught up in in what they used to do. I mean I think one of the one of the strongest conventions about not interfering not even commenting on your successor was in the United States. where past presidents were not not supposed supposed to say a word about their successor? But that's been broken barrack Obama who has been quite voluble On the subject of what he seizes uses the errors of Donald Trump's ways and on the one hand you know that's a lot of us who would say well you know good on him quite right for doing that on the other hand. I I think there's a very a very sensible place for this convention that says actually you should find something else to do or just imagine. Donald Trump defeated in November. I don't think he'll go silent silent.