Le Monde diplomatique
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English edition of Le Monde diplomatique, the Paris-based monthly paper, published in 28 languages and read by two and a half million people worldwide.
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On this month's podcast we're joined by Le Monde diplomatique's new Asia head, Renaud Lambert, who writes in the current edition of the paper about China's global ambitions (‘China: the invention of the roadmap to global power'). The dominant western narrative maintains China is pursuing a master plan to remake the world in its own image, steered by a solitary autocrat, Xi Jinping. Rather than a grand strategy for world domination, Lambert finds a messier reality of devolved power and economic (...)
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On 12 March, Haiti's president Ariel Henry agreed to resign after turmoil prevented him from returning to his country from a trip abroad. Over the past months, thousands of Haitians have fled chaos and gang violence to neighbouring Dominican Republic; the crisis recently intensified with weeks of protests against Henry and a mass prison break in Port-au-Prince and Croix-des-Bouquets.
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Sources: OECD, data-explorer.oecd.org; WHO, ‘World Health Statistics
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Rezső Kasztner saved more Jews from the Holocaust than Oskar Schindler, but was branded a collaborator in the postwar ferment of Israeli politics.
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The essence of the international law that came into being after 1918, and with whose evolution we still live today, was what Schmitt identified as its fundamentally discriminatory character. Wars waged by the liberal powers dominating the system were selfless police actions upholding international law. Wars waged by anyone else were criminal enterprises violating international law.
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Our societies cannot adapt to an average temperature rise of 4ºC. Yet adaptation is now being touted as a (magical) way of maintaining the political and economic status quo.
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Like many rich nations, France relies on doctors from abroad to keep its public health system afloat. But these medics face an uphill struggle for proper recognition and salaries that match their skills.
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