We speak to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer. He discusses the ongoing #BlackLivesMatter protests following the death of George Floyd, President Trump’s police reform executive order and whether it’s good enough, alleged systemic & cultural racism in the US, his condemnation of the US for ‘racial terror lynchings’, the ongoing persecution of Julian Assange and more! Finally, we speak to Professor Zhang Weiwei, former translator for China’s ex-paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, and director of the China Institute at Fudan University. He discusses the border clashes between India and China in the Ladakh region of Kashmir, which has seen 20 Indian soldiers killed and an unknown number of fatalities in China’s People’s Liberation Army. He discusses why he believes the conflict and border dispute are manageable, and why he believes war will not result despite fiery rhetoric in the media, his belief that the aggression came from the Indian side, the economic and military reasons he believes India will not go to war with China, why India, China and Pakistan should build closer ties and more
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