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2023 Wrapped: A Year of Survival, Sovereignty, and Supremacy

December 18, 2023 — From Putin’s costly war in Ukraine, to simmering tensions between the US and China, and renewed violence in the Middle East, this week, we’re looking back at the international news stories that defined 2023. Professor Jessica Chen Weiss, senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute; Karim Elgendy, founder of the Carboun Initiative for Middle Eastern Sustainable Cities; and Luke Harding, foreign correspondent at The Guardian, join Ray Suarez to dissect this year’s most significant geopolitical shifts… and the foreign policy issues that will define 2024.

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2023– Source: EP)

UN Climate Change Conference COP28 (Photo by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled)

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