The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 20 October 2021

Air Date: 
October 20, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
Wednesday 20 October 2021

FIRST HOUR  

9-915     The call to postpone and move the 2022 Winter games from Beijing. Nury Turkel @nuryturkel .  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/us-olympians-voice-concern-over-human-rights-ahead-beijing-2022-2021-10-20/
Nury Turkel, commissioner at the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
 

915-930   The leading Korean presidential candidate appears decidedly anti-US and pro-China. @DrTaraO. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/10/16/south-koreas-ruling-party-bets-on-an-anti-establishment-figure
Tara O, adjunct Fellow, Pacific Forum CSIS, and Fellow at the Institute for Corean-American Studies. (https://eastasiaresearch.org/)   @DrTaraO. 
 

930-945  
 

945-1000     India talks Abraham Accords with Israel, UAE and the US.  @CleoPaskal,  @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.deccanherald.com/national/india-moves-to-take-advantage-of-abraham-accords-joins-israel-uae-us-in-new-quad-1041900.html
Cleo Paskal  @CleoPaskal, associate Fellow at Chatham House; Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India;  adjunct professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies  
 
 

SECOND HOUR   

10-1015      Sir David Amess: The mystery of the murder of an honorable man.  Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist
https://www.economist.com/news/the-tories-are-deadly-serious-about-levelling-up/21805357?frsc=dg%7Ce
The Economist | Toiling towards the sunlit uplands 
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1510768610/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_thcv_p1_i0
 
 

1015-1030     Labour is not charismatic; & what is to be done? Adrian Wooldridge @TheEconomist
https://www.economist.com/britain/sir-keir-starmer-is-sailing-the-labour-party-in-the-right-direction/21805116?frsc=dg%7Ce
The Economist | A blustery week 
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1510768610/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_thcv_p1_i0

1030-1045    Winter is coming tonight.  Simon Constable  @RealConstable  @Forbes Edinburgh, Barrons, WSJ
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/7874544/scotland-weather-arctic-air-plunging-temperatures-gusts/
 

1045-1100     Moscow warns of full lockdown. Felix Light @CBSNews @MoscowTimes
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/10/20/moscow-will-go-into-full-lockdown-if-cases-dont-fall-government-order-a75355
 

THIRD HOUR   

1100-1115     Remembering the life and times of General and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Jeff McCausland  @mccauslJ  @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-has-no-idea-who-colin-powell-really-was-ncna1281846
 

1115-1130    To invade Taiwan. Jeff McCausland  @mccauslJ @CBSNews @dickinsoncol     @CBSradio  https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/taiwan-says-odds-of-war-with-china-in-next-year-very-low/ar-AAPIXRX

1130-1145    The PRC falls down.  Gregory Copley  @Gregory_Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/business/china-electricity-shortage.html
 

1145-1200    Journey to a newly-threatened Uzbekistan. Gregory Copley  @Gregory_Copley,, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://thediplomat.com/2021/10/quiet-presidential-campaign-nearly-over-in-uzbekistan/

 
 

FOURTH HOUR  

12-1215    #NewWorldReport: Reckoning for Colombia 21 years later.   Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, Latin American Research U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. 
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/19/jineth-bedoya-colombian-state-responsible-kidnap-torture-journalist

1215-1230    #NewWorldReport: SOUTHCOM along the watchtowers.   Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, Latin American Research U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. 
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2718065/southcom-commander-nominee-us-must-remain-partner-of-choice-in-western-hemisphe/

1230-1245    #NewWorldReport: Ecuador emerges from failed socialism.  Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, Latin American Research U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. 
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/10/14/guillermo-lassos-battle-against-populism-in-ecuador
 

1245-100 AM    #NewWorldReport: What about a continental economy built on new supply chains?   Professor Evan Ellis @revanellis, Latin American Research. U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. 
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/10/16/latin-americas-economies-have-an-opportunity-to-grow
 
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