pariah. joining me now to discuss is karen attiah, she s a washington post columnist on international affairs and jamal khashoggi s former editor. it s good to see you again. thank you for making time for us tonight. let me just start out by getting your reaction to all of this, how are you feeling this evening? yeah, i mean it s i don t know how many more synonyms for me feeling like this is another betrayal by the u.s. government, by the biden administration. and i ve been speaking to many of us who were involved all those years ago trying to advocate for justice not just for jamal, but again, jamal s murder stood for a lot. it was a symbol about our willingness as a nation, as a country, to stand up for those who find themselves under the
pariah. joining me now to discuss is karen a ta, she s a washington post columnist on international affairs and jamal khashoggi s former editor. it s good to see you again. thank you for making time for us tonight. let me just start out by getting your reaction to all of this, how are you feeling this evening? yeah, i mean it s i don t know how many more synonyms for me feeling like this is another betrayal by the u.s. government, by the biden administration. and i ve been speaking to many of us who were involved all those years ago trying to advocate for justice not just for jamal, but again, jamal s murder stood for a lot. it was a symbol about our willingness as a nation, as a country, to stand up for those who find themselves under the
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there when you talked about suffocating. a powerful word is the title of the book. before you each get to the pages, you start thinking about isolation, right? backup. i mean, these are the synonyms that come to mind for me. so what do you think there had to have been a lot of consternation about that title spare. and i wonder what his concerns or thoughts were about why that is the right title? because i m sure he had all of the say in that. yes, you re right, fredricka. the title would have been discussed with the publishers and one he has chosen. spare doesn t translate exactly the language. in spanish, it s the shadow. in denmark, it s the reservist. so just bringing up the idea of someone who is this spare
about the state as a full fledged member, a partner to the democratic community more than anything else. but you are part of the government, i appreciate you are non partisan and not part of the ruling dpp, but the president tsai ing wen s comments are quite puzzling. for example, in 2020, she told the bbc that we don t have a need to declare independence, we are an independent country already, and call ourselves the republic of china. what does she mean by that? well, the roc government officially relocated to taiwan in the 1940s and ever since then, we say roc taiwan with or without the parenthesis to symbolise that when we talk about the roc now it means that the people in this free country elects the president directly since 1996 and so on, and so they have become like synonyms, the roc and taiwan.