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Double Standards with Afshin Rattansi

Double Standards - 35 - FIGHTING OVER BURMA/MYANMAR & THE FALKLANDS/MALVINAS

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Episode 35 of Double Standards. It looks like the head of the CIA, General Petraeus, is arranging to go to Burma/Myanmar, right in China’s backyard....
Episode 35 of Double Standards. It looks like the head of the CIA, General Petraeus, is arranging to go to Burma/Myanmar, right in China’s backyard. We look at the ratchetting up of power games in the jade kingdom. In the show: 1 Britain sends its nuclear submarine to the South Atlantic and ignores U.S. calls for a negotiated settlement over the Malvinas 2 Disgraced Scotland Yard and Philadelphia police chiefs fly into Bahrain to advise on killing pro-democracy protestors 3 and as one of the world’s most famous political prisoners, Aung San Suu Kyi prepares for elections in Burma/Myanmar, we speak to her biographer, Justin Wintle about the geostrategic battle between China and the West. Less
25:49 News & Politics
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