Putin Visits Xi, Russia's Kharkiv Advance, Biden-Bibi Split
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Ken Moriyasu, Nahal Toosi, and Yaroslav Trofimov join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
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About This Episode
China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin met this week in a show of unity, tightening Russia’s strategic alliance with China. What are the geopolitical implications of their “new era” partnership? Then, thousands of Ukrainians have fled border towns in the northeast Kharkiv region as Russian troops advance in new offensive. Plus, the fallout between President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu continues. Ken Moriyasu, Nahal Toosi, and Yaroslav Trofimov join the Council’s Ivo Daalder to discuss these issues.
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About the Panelists
Ken Moriyasu
Washington Correspondent, Nikkei Asia
Ken is the Washington correspondent for Nikkei Asia, the English-language arm of Japanese media group Nikkei. Born in Chicago, Ken has been with Nikkei for over two decades, serving as a correspondent in Tokyo, Washington DC, Cairo, Beijing, Dalian and New York. He was the last journalist to interview Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in January 2006, one day before his stroke..
Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, POLITICO
Nahal Toosi joined POLITICO from The Associated Press, where she reported from/served as an editor in New York, Islamabad, Kabul, and London. She was one of the first foreign correspondents to reach Pakistan after the killing of Osama bin Laden and was a finalist for the 2019 National Magazine Award in reporting for her story on the plight of Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
Yaroslav Trofimov is the chief foreign-affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. He has covered the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 and has been working out of Ukraine since January 2022. He joined the Journal in 1999.
CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.