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Biden Meets Marcos, Turkish Elections, and Ukraine's Counteroffensive

Bobby Ghosh, Nahal Toosi, and Prashant Rao join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
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About This Episode

President Biden hosts Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to address growing concern about Chinese naval presence in the South China Sea. Plus, will Erdogan’s two-decade rule come to an end in the upcoming Turkish elections? And in Ukraine, a counteroffensive appears imminent. Council President Ivo Daalder unpacks these issues with Bobby Ghosh, Prashant Rao, and Nahal Toosi. 

About the Panelists
Columnist and Editor, Bloomberg Opinion
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Bobby Ghosh writes about geopolitics with a special focus on the Middle East and Africa. In a journalism career spanning more than three decades, Ghosh has worked in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States for publications like Time Magazine, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and now Bloomberg.
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Prashant Rao
Senior Editor, Semafor
Prashant Rao
Prashant Rao is a senior editor at Semafor. Prior to that, he was a former senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversaw the Global section, and was the deputy Europe business editor for The New York Times.
Prashant Rao
Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent, POLITICO
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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.
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CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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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.
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