united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. today we devote the program to that sobering anniversary. one year since russia s full-scale invasion of ukraine. i ll bring you my interview with the national security adviser jake sullivan and usaid administrator samantha powell about where the war and america s assistance go from here. also, who should foot the bill for the hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to ukraine? former treasury secretary larry summers says the answer is easy. listen to him explain his plan. then why putin s war in ukraine may not be proceeding as he hoped. the russian president may be getting exactly what he always wanted back home in russia. the new york times valerie hopkins will explain. but first, here s my take. one year into russia s naked aggression against ukraine, it s become clear that neither side is strong enough to win the war nor weak enough to sue for peace. the conflict has settled into a stalemate. after m
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according to the rule of law index in 2022 by the world justice project, hong kong is ranked 22nd out of 140 jurisdictions in terms of rule of law, followed by spain at 23rd and the us at 26. so we have an independent judiciary that is well recognised around the world. so any prosecuted individuals are going to go through a fair trial. so if they in fact did commit a crime that is in regards to national security, they should be prosecuted. right, just a couple of points on that. obviously, the 2020 national security law was initiated in beijing, not in hong kong. you know that as well as i do. it also makes it much easier to extradite hong kong citizens into china. you know that, too. but leave that aside. i m just interested in the mindset here. alice mak, obviously another well known pro beijing politician in hong kong, she said last year, if hong kong is a police state, why not? i don t think there s any problem with a police state. do you agree? you asked me exactly the same
The notion behind the rule of law is to curb the exercise of arbitrary power by anyone. How does one measure rule of law in a country? And how does India figure on those rankings?
the atlas of impunity released by former british foreign secretary david mill band, the chicago council on global affairs and eurasia group, impunity, they say, is the exercise of power without accountability, the commission of crimes without punishment. when the prevailing sense is the law is for suckers and impunity thrives when the imbalance of power is to great that the powerful think they do not have to follow the rules. the report ranks most of the world s nations along five dimensions. lack of government accountability, human rights abuses, environmental degradation, unfairness in the economy and the use of violence in internal and foreign conflicts. it largely draws on the work of other groups who have made indices such as the rule of law index, world freedom index, eke no, ma amic index, but the