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The Friday List: From Thespo s youth theatre festival to a poetry reading by Ranjit Hoskote, your weekly calendar of virtual events Every Friday, we ll bring you a curated list of online experiences performances, talks, tours, screenings to mark on your weekly calendar. FP Staff December 11, 2020 12:48:50 IST On this week s #FridayList: a screening of an opera, Meryl Streep in The Prom, Ranjit Hoskote s poetry reading and lots more. (Bottom centre) Image via Facebook/ Neemrana Music Foundation
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The year 2020 has been quite eventful, what with the coronavirus crisis completely changing the way we approach our daily lives, our work and our friends and family. With vaccines being developed across the world and some countries even making it to the stage of mass immunisation, there is perhaps reason to hope that this pand
army will still have a major say in the way the place is run, while, on the other hand, aung san suu kyi has said if she has a majority, she ll be above the president. how is that going to work out? the big question is if this mixed system is going to be the first step toward a genuine democracy or if it s going to remain in this mixed or hybrid state for the time being. let s just talk about it from a u.s. perspective, a western perspective. obviously, the u.s. had a huge amount of impact, and really has seemed to have won the country away from more chinese influence toward a more western engagement. i think from a westerner perspective, it s true some of the pressure and persuasion that was put on the military regime five years ago, helped in starting the democratic
i think the obama administration wants our advisers to help them defend baghdad. i suspect prime minister maliki want to drive into the sunni areas which would mean his troops and these shia militias driving into the sunni areas where there could be massacres. where there could be atrocities. will our troops be involved in that. those are some very big questions. big questions. then charles, you know, secretary kerry is asking these leaders in the region to help push for a more balanced iraqi government, more representative of sunni, shia, and kurds. but we re even hearing from countries that they re saying they re not even so sure they can trust the al maliki leadership. so we ve got a big problem, don t we? that s a huge problem. and i think that particularly from our perspective, western perspective, american perspective, we often look for clear cut good guy and bad guys. and in this case it doesn t seem to be so clear cut. in fact, you could look at it as choosing among lesser
one or two cases. what s more common that jim alluded to a second ago is that these organizations that fuall out of favor where difficulty getting visas for their journalists. bloomberg has problems. the new york times has that problem. one reporter in hong kong spent a year trying to get into the mainland where his family are and so i think that s one problem. also bloomberg and the new york times are blocked in china. you can t access their websites. so there are ways the authorities try to make your life more difficult but in terms of actual expulsions, its an aggressive move in the communist party holding back from doing that because of negative press that they will receive. jim, you want to jump in. give us your response. the biggest picture here is from western perspective chinese communist government is hurting itself by making it hard for reporters to travel there. the unbalanced picture from inside china is more positive