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
penning newspaper columns and presenting the podcast rock and roll politics. maria margaronis is a journalist, who s written and presented a number of radio documentaries on the crises man made and natural which have afflicted greece. ashis ray has half a century of explaining events here to his readers in india. a fulltime occupation in itself, you might think, but he s still found time to commentate on his beloved cricket. lovely to have you all new the studio. all together as well. so thank you for being with us. borisjohnson street, according to a ukrainian mp, could soon be found on maps for odesa, as it expunges the memorialisation of famous russians. assuming the british prime minister s visit to india this week is followed in due course by a free trade deal something neither the european union nor the united states has pulled off there ll probably be a thoroughfare named in his honour in mumbai, too. in this country, borisjohnson way might be a cul de sac. such is
And tout. multi polarity. russia and china tout. multi polarity. russia and china want to give it the anti-us and china want to give it the anti us hegemony and anti western gloss, which the others anti western gloss, which the others are anti western gloss, which the others are trying to say they don t others are trying to say they don t want. they want to pursue a multi alignment, not nonalignment but multi alignment, to get what they multi alignment, to get what they can multi alignment, to get what they can with relations with countries on both sides of this equation countries on both sides of this euuation. ., v ., countries on both sides of this euuation. . , ., equation. that s a good point, and important equation. that s a good point, and important to equation. that s a good point, and important to note - equation. that s a good point, and important to note these i equation. that s a good point, i and important to note these are countries that have r
Multi-alignment, trying to have good relationship with everybody, including some we don t have good relationship with. sandra: his attempted, i don t know if you call it a clean up, addressing comments on xi being a dictator, says it did not undermine or complicate the relationship with china and don t think it had a real consequence. how do you think china will react to that. i really don t care. if you are going to blind squirrel, he was right to call xi a dictator. and people freaked out ronald reagan called the soviet the empire xi is crushing freedom in his country, unleashed a virus on us, apparently looks increasingly like we got the smoking gun came from the wuhan lab and the biden administration
Foreign Policy magazine published an article on May 31 covering US President Joe Biden's short May trip to the Asia-Pacific region, saying countries in the region have chosen what the authors term multi-alignment.