World Review: China's zero-COVID Failures, Ukraine, and Macron vs. Le Pen
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About This Episode
Jamil Anderlini, Bobby Ghosh, and Giles Whittell join World Review with Ivo Daalder to cover the latest news from Ukraine: more weapons, more sanctions, and more evidence that Russia is willing to escalate the conflict in new ways. Then, COVID-19 lockdowns in China prompt Chinese criticisms of Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy, whether the French election is Macron's to lose, and how Boris Johnson is staying in charge...for now.
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China's Zero-COVID policy was "meant to be living proof of a superior system of governance," writes Kris Hartley in the Diplomat.
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“Having quickly closed ranks to confront Putin’s aggression, the challenge now is how to sustain that unity,” write Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay in Foreign Affairs.
![People hold flares with the colors of the Ukrainian flag at a protest against the Russian invasion.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide_xxsml/public/2022-03/ukraine-flares-protest_reuters.jpg?h=37ec6c8f&itok=bMj067ug)
“Western powers possess the innate strength necessary to contain Russia and outcompete China,” writes Ivo Daalder in Foreign Affairs.