The John Batchelor Show

#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus observe the Bronze Age decline and Iron Age rebirth of trading empires -- and compare to the not-completed cycle 1900-2024. . Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos https://www.amazon.com/After-1177-B-C-Survival-Civilizations/dp/0691192138 1545 Trojan War

#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus ask if the EU will arm and if NATO will reinforce? Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/02/lord-cameron-ukraine-right-to-use-british-weapons-defence/ 1919 Western Front one year later

#Londinium90AD: Gais & Germanicus measure the Kyiv withdrawal and turmoil. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/03/ukraine-peace-talks-alternative-inevitable-defeat/ 1916 Verdun

WUHAN LAB RECONSIDERED: 8/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin (Author) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-shared-gobsmacking-covid-lab-leak-file-with-uk/ar-AA1o8PCZ https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Under-Heaven-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0358393248 By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour. October 1, 1949

WUHAN LAB RECONSIDERED: 7/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin (Author) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-shared-gobsmacking-covid-lab-leak-file-with-uk/ar-AA1o8PCZ https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Under-Heaven-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0358393248 By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour. 1900 Forbidden City

WUHAN LAB RECONSIDERED: 6/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin (Author) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-shared-gobsmacking-covid-lab-leak-file-with-uk/ar-AA1o8PCZ https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Under-Heaven-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0358393248 By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour. 1900 Beijing

WUHAN LAB RECONSIDERED: 5/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin (Author) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-shared-gobsmacking-covid-lab-leak-file-with-uk/ar-AA1o8PCZ https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Under-Heaven-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0358393248 By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour. 1900 Beijing

WUHAN LAB RECONSIDERED: 4/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin (Author) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-shared-gobsmacking-covid-lab-leak-file-with-uk/ar-AA1o8PCZ https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Under-Heaven-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0358393248 By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour. 1920 Hong Kong

WUHAN LAB RECONSIDERED: 3/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin (Author) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-shared-gobsmacking-covid-lab-leak-file-with-uk/ar-AA1o8PCZ https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Under-Heaven-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0358393248 By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour.1913 China

WUHAN LAB RECONSIDERED: 2/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin (Author) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-shared-gobsmacking-covid-lab-leak-file-with-uk/ar-AA1o8PCZ https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Under-Heaven-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0358393248 By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour. 1930 Beijing

WUHAN LAB RECONSIDERED: 1/8: Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century by Josh Rogin (Author) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-shared-gobsmacking-covid-lab-leak-file-with-uk/ar-AA1o8PCZ https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Under-Heaven-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0358393248 By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Xi had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office. ​Filled with shocking revelations drawn from Josh Rogin’s unparalleled access to top U.S. officials from the White House and deep within the country’s foreign policy machine, Chaos Under Heaven reveals an administration at war with itself during perhaps our most urgent hour. 1900 Manchu people

PREVIEW: #RECONSTRUCTION: From a two-hour conversation with author Robert Cwiklik re his new work, SHERIDAN'S SECRET MISSION, about the breakdown in order in post Civil War Louisiana and Mississippi, and the futile effort by President Grant and his military enforcer Phil Sheridan to contain the Crescent City White League and mass murder. More of this in the comng weeks. Sheridan’s Secret Mission: How the South Won the War After the Civil War Hardcover – January 16, 2024 by Robert Cwiklik (Author) 1963 Gettysburg battlefield, Bryan House

#OzWatch: The kindly Ben Stokes. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/27690569/josh-baker-dead-cricketer-20-dies-heartbreaking-tributes/

#OzWatch: Golfing with Eastern Browns. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-03/outback-qld-residents-tourist-warned-spike-deadly-snake-bites/103779992 1906 Queensland

#OzWatch: Bucketing rain across the Eastern Continent -- El Nino coming Winter. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.news.com.au/national/weather/wet-weather-for-a-least-a-week-possibly-two-across-australias-east-coast/news-story/84ce181f897014531d739d0f5bdc0747 1915 Darwin

CHINA AND THE LOST DECADES AHEAD: 4/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection. 1900 Beijing

CHINA AND THE LOST DECADES AHEAD: 3/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection 1967 Mao

CHINA AND THE LOST DECADES AHEAD: 2/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection. 1860 China

CHINA AND THE LOST DECADES AHEAD: 1/4: Wild Ride: A short history of the opening and closing of the Chinese economy by Anne Stevenson-Yang (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Ride-history-opening-closing/dp/173942431X How did China grow from an impoverished country to become the second largest economy in the world in just over four decades? And how did this economic miracle come to an end, as seems the case today? To understand the story of China's rapid rise and equally rapid fall, author Anne Stevenson-Yang takes us back to the beginning, when Deng Xiaoping took over and opened its moribund economy to Western money and know-how. Stevenson-Yang, who lived and worked in China for a quarter of a century, traces each decade of China's tumultuous development, from the roaring 1980s to today's malaise. In her first-hand account, Wild Ride, Stevenson-Yang concludes that China is returning to the poverty and isolation of the Mao era. What happened to the promise of the political change that would come with the opening of the economy? And the institutional reforms of the last four decades? The author says all that change was all an illusion. Communist China, being interested only in survival, played along and the West fell for it. With the rise of Xi Jinping, that capitalist experiment is over. 'It took me years to understand that I was an unwitting player in an elaborate dramatic confection. 1857 China

INARGUABLE DEFINITION OF GENOCIDE: 4/4: No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs Kindle Edition by Nury Turkel https://www.amazon.com/No-Escape-Chinas-Genocide-Uyghurs-ebook/dp/B09CMRPZL1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HQXI67T1UBCW&keywords=NO+ESCAPE+TURKEL&qid=1669243597&s=books&sprefix=no+escape+turkel%2Cstripbooks%2C73&sr=1-1 In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing them in what it calls “reeducation camps,” facilities most of the world identifies as concentration camps. There, the genocide and enslavement of the Uyghur people are ongoing. The tactics employed are reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, but the results are far more insidious because of the technology used, most of it stolen from Silicon Valley. In the words of Turkel, “Communist China has created an open prison-like environment through the most intrusive surveillance state that the world has ever known while committing genocide and enslaving the Uyghurs on the world’s watch.” As a human rights attorney and Uyghur activist who now serves on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, Turkel tells his personal story to help explain the urgency and scope of the Uyghur crisis. Born in 1970 in a reeducation camp, he was lucky enough to survive and eventually make his way to the US, where he became the first Uyghur to receive an American law degree. Since then, he has worked as a prominent lawyer, activist, and spokesperson for his people and advocated strong policy responses from the liberal democracies to address atrocity crimes against his people. The Uyghur crisis is turning into the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century, a systematic cleansing of an entire race of people in the millions. Part Anne Frank and Hannah Arendt, No Escape shares Turkel’s personal story while drawing back the curtain on the historically unprecedented and increasing threat from China.claude: I believe you might be referring to "Xinjiang," which is an autonomous region located in the northwestern part of China. Here are some key points about Xinjiang: 1940 Boxers