2022 Reshaped the U.S. Relationship With Russia, China

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. has dispatched billions in military aid to Ukraine to support its territorial defense after Russia invaded at the beginning of the year and joined with allies to issue stringent sanctions against Vladimir Putin's government. And a dust-up over U.S. support for Taiwan, an independent democracy which China considers part of its territory, was a recent point of tension with China — though Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping recently met for several hours of diplomatic talks.

This episode: political correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, China correspondent John Ruwitch, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

This episode was produced by Elena Moore and Casey Morell. It was edited by Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Research and fact-checking by Juma Sei.

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0:00.0	Hello there, it is the NPR politics podcast.
0:06.9	I'm Danielle Kurtzlavin, I cover politics.
0:09.4	And I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent.
0:12.6	And today we're looking back at some of the biggest international political news of
0:15.6	2022 and more specifically we are focusing on two countries.
0:20.8	Russia and China.
0:21.8	They made a lot of international news in their own right this year, but both play huge roles
0:26.9	in US politics as well.
0:28.4	So let's get right into it.
0:30.2	We're going to start off today with Russia and more specifically the Russian invasion
0:33.6	of Ukraine.
0:34.6	And for that we're joined by NPR's Franco-Ordonez.
0:37.0	Hey Franco.
0:38.0	Hey Danielle, hey Mara.
0:39.8	So Franco in addition to being one of our White House reporters, you've spent some time
0:43.5	on the ground in Ukraine this year.
0:45.3	So I'm really curious to hear your perspective on this a year into the conflict.
0:49.6	I know there's been a fair amount of news over that time about Ukrainian momentum, some
0:54.2	real strength that the country is showing how has the conflict evolved since February.
1:00.2	You know it has evolved quite a bit.
1:02.1	I mean within days, you know the Russians were knocking on the door of Kiev, taking control
1:07.7	of suburban communities.
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