Your questions about the world, answered

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In a very special Worldly episode, Zack, Jenn, and Alex answer YOUR questions! From the many great listener questions sent in over the last several weeks, the gang picked four to answer in this week’s episode: What is “the Quad” and how does it fit into geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific; what’s driving migration to the US from Central America; why Imperial Japan’s use of Korean forced labor and “comfort women” in the 1930s and ’40s continues to complicate relations between Japan and South Korea today; and how to go about explaining world affairs topics to folks who don’t have a deep background in these subjects. References: Alex wrote an explainer on “the Quad.” Vox has a piece on the hurricane’s effects in Central America. Here’s Jen Kirby’s story about a better US policy for the Golden Triangle. This is the Washington Post analysis on the situation at the border. Deutsche Welle has a smart explainer on the forced labor issue on the Korean Peninsula. The Asahi Shimbun has a report on the Japanese firms facing a wartime damages suit. Hosts: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp), senior correspondent, Vox Jennifer Williams (@jenn_ruth), senior foreign editor, Vox Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox), White House reporter, Vox Consider contributing to Vox: If you value Worldly’s work, please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts More to explore: Subscribe for free to Today, Explained, Vox’s daily podcast to help you understand the news, hosted by Sean Rameswaram. About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Newsletter: Vox Sentences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is a very special episode of Worldly, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:14.4	We are talking not about one topic, but about a few different ones.
0:19.0	Topics that are all inspired by questions from loyal listeners, people who are curious
0:23.5	about the world and have some things that we want to talk about.
0:26.0	Now, last weeks, what we talked about the European vaccine crisis was a little bit like this.
0:31.0	We were inspired by a question from Christopher who emailed to ask about what's going on with
0:35.0	Europe's vaccine woes.
0:37.0	So, today, we decided to really blow that out.
0:39.0	We're going to tackle four different questions that you are listener sent in.
0:43.0	I'm Zach Beacham.
0:44.0	Here is always with Jen Williams and Alex Ward, very hype to talk about what our listeners
0:49.0	are going to talk about.
0:50.0	Love questions, better answers.
0:51.0	Now, this isn't every question that we got and we're going to do this periodically.
0:55.0	So, if your question didn't get answered today, I'm really sorry, but we will try to get to them eventually.
1:01.0	The first question that I wanted to tackle comes from Shube who asked about the situation
1:09.0	between India and China in sort of the East Asian balance of power.
1:13.0	And more generally about something called the Quad, which is a network of four different countries,
1:21.0	the United States, Japan, India, and Australia, that are sort of like a loose organization,
1:28.0	but not really a formal organization of countries that are trying to work on problems
1:33.0	in the general South East Asian, in the general South, slash East Asian area.
1:39.0	So, to answer Shube's question about what all of this means in terms of the relationship
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