misinformation which serves as a political tool for the us and the west to strategically use shing zhang to contain china. joining me now is michael bristow. he is the asia pacific editor for the bbc world service. china dismissing this report is misinformation, but tell us about the evidence the us has gathered. it has taken a while to get this together to get it to the point where it is released. it is interesting where it is released. it is interesting to where it is released. it is interesting to hear- where it is released. it is interesting to hear the i where it is released. it 3 interesting to hear the foreign ministry spokesman saying it is misinformation because much of the detail for misinformation because much of the detailfor this report misinformation because much of the detail for this report came from the chinese government themselves. the un pored over documents supplied by the chinese government, the reports that they had done, and statistics about what was going o
the british foreign office announced yesterday that it has information that russia is looking to install a pro-russian leader in kyiv, the ukrainian capital. russia called the report misinformation and said the foreign office should stop engaging in provocations. david miliband used to run the british foreign office when he was foreign secretary, today he is president and ceo of the international rescue committee. anne applebaum is a pulitzer prize winning historian and staff writer at the atlantic. she is the author of red famine: stalin s war on ukraine. richard haass served as director of policy planning in the state department. richard, what the west and united states principally is trying to do is clearly some mixture of deterrents to keep the russians at bay and diplomacy. do you think the biden administration is getting this balance right?
europe on the scale of the 1970s oil crisis which no european government would want. all of which is to say vladimir putin is not engaging in reckless adventurism. he takes risks, but he has calculated the arts carefully and right now they are in his favor. go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my washington post column this week. and let s get started. let us keep talking about russia and ukraine. the british foreign office announced yesterday that it has information that russia is looking to install a pro-russian leader in kyiv, the ukrainian capital. russia called the report misinformation and said the foreign office should stop initiating in provocations. david miliband used to run the british foreign office when he