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Worse than war? Andy Mok, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization
There is little doubt that the world we knew just three years ago is no more, and it keeps being transformed faster than ever. Even the nature of change is changing. How is this seen from China, a country with a 5,000-year-long view of history and...
May 10, 2022 06:21
Worlds Apart is a fast-paced, in-depth discussion on the most pressing issues facing the world today.It strives to depart from the traditional Q&A form of interview in favor of a more emotive and engaging conversation. Host Oksana Boyko is not afraid to ask the hard questions that others avoid, with the aim of promoting intelligent public debate.

Worse than war? Andy Mok, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization
There is little doubt that the world we knew just three years ago is no more, and it keeps being transformed faster than ever. Even the nature of change is changing. How is this seen from China, a country with a 5,000-year-long view of history and...
May 10, 2022 06:21
Nyet to Russia? Tamas Krausz, Professor of Russian History at Eotvos Lorand University of Sciences in Budapest
Regardless of its outcome, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine will for years remain an open wound between two peoples who once considered themselves brothers. But while fratricidal strife is as old as history, the confrontation over Ukraine may...
May 8, 2022 06:20
Lured to the precipice? Madhav Nalapat, director of geopolitics & international relations at Manipal University
Twenty years ago, at a press briefing about the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld uttered his famous quote about ‘known knowns’, ‘known unknowns’, and ‘unknown...
May 3, 2022 06:18
Below rock bottom? Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
If there’s one thing the Russians and Americans have in common, it is a deep-seated and historically tested belief that the passage of time reveals the moral truth. From St. Augustin to Martin Luther King, from President Obama to President...
May 1, 2022 06:38
Sinking & drowning? Wang Wen, Executive Dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies
An old Chinese saying suggests that it’s “better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos,” a proposition that many of us may test out pretty soon as the world we knew just a few years ago rapidly...
Apr 26, 2022 06:46
Stuck at close range? Tokyo Sexwale, prominent South African politician & anti-apartheid activist
In their efforts to isolate Moscow, some in the West compare it to apartheid-era South Africa, claiming that if Russia were to have its own Nelson Mandela, the Putin government would have to be ostracized and the country’s economy boycotted....
Apr 24, 2022 09:00
The blind side of history? Efraim Inbar, president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security
From Aristotle to Hagel to Fukuyama, the idea of history gravitating to some moral end is one of the most generative and destructive Western concepts, giving rise to both Christianity and fascism, and Marxism and liberalism. With the conflict in...
Apr 19, 2022 06:23
Percept or precept? Liu Xin, CGTN anchor
If the American approach to the world could be reduced to one bumper sticker, it may well be this, ‘perception is reality’. Coined in the early 1980s by prominent Republican strategist Lee Atwater, it made ample use of falsehoods and...
Apr 17, 2022 06:29
Close enemies, distant friends? Yusuf Alabarda, retired colonel of the Turkish Armed Forces
When it comes to the Russian-Turkish relationship, one quote that immediately comes to mind is “Keep your friends close and enemies even closer.” Having fought more wars between them than any other pair of countries in Eurasia, Moscow...
Apr 12, 2022 06:29
Self-reliance over alliance? Asad Durrani, former director general of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence
When the Americans needed Pakistan’s support in driving the Soviets out of Afghanistan, they quietly looked the other way as Islamabad put the finishing touches on a nuclear bomb. Around 40 years later, the same powers are at loggerheads, this...
Apr 10, 2022 06:28