future, the near term, and i don t think it has had any real consequence. and what was your second question? as you raise these broader issues of human rights and democracy, what is your message to those, including some members of your own party who believe that your administration is overlooking the targeting of religious minorities and a crackdown on descent in india. look, the prime minister and i had a good discussion on democratic values and there is a that s the nature of our relationship, we are straightforward with each other and we respect each other. one of the fundamental reasons that i believe u.s.-china relationship is not in the space as the u.s.-india relationship is that there is an overwhelming respect for each other because we are both democracies, and it s a common democratic character both our countries that, and our people, our diversity, our culture, our open tolerant robust debate and we believe the dignity of every citizen and it is in america s
collapsing and moving et cetera, et cetera, we had an incident that caused some confusion you might say, but the secretary blinken had a great trip to china. i expect to be meeting with president xi sometime in the future in the near term, and i don t think it s had any real consequence. what was your second question. as you raise broader issues of human rights and democracy, what s your message, including members of your own party who thinks your administration is overlooking a crack down on dissent in india. the prime minister and i had a good discussion about democratic values, and there s a that s the nature of our relationship. we re straightforward with each other, and we respect each other. one of the fundamental reasons that i believe the u.s./china relationship is not in the space it is, in the u.s. indian relationship is that there s an overwhelming respect for each other because we re both democracies, and it s a common democratic character of both of our cou
as a western perception that the african female is a downtrodden wretch . but when you look around the african continent today girls abducted in nigeria, polygamy re introduced in kenya, child marriages and the prevalence of gender based violence how much is there to celebrate about being female in africa? ama ata aidoo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zainab. there s a lot of political issues and social affairs in your writings. how much do you see yourself as a writer with a mission? well, now, in retrospect, i suppose i could describe myself as a writer with a mission. but i never was aware that i had a mission when i started to write, you see. it didn t work it doesn t work like that. i maen, i don t sit at my desk and say, now i ve got to depict this, and depict that. no. first of all, i was rather young when i started writing, so i didn t even have any notion of where my would be read, or how, and stuff like that. so it wasn t a conscious decision, but
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