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🗓️ 4 August 2025
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| 0:33.7 | Welcome to the Mona Charon Show. So glad you could join us today. I'm delighted to welcome Sadan Dume, who is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Wall Street Journal columnist, and a specialist on Asia. This is a topic that hasn't gotten much attention lately, and so I'm hoping we can get some enlightenment on what is happening in that critical part of the world. |
| 1:02.3 | But I'd like to begin with Sadnan's own personal story. |
| 1:08.4 | So can you tell us where you were born, what your influences were growing up? |
| 1:15.7 | I was born in New Delhi, India, and I moved around a little bit when I was young because my |
| 1:23.5 | father was an Indian diplomat. So I was in Washington, D.C. for three years. I was in kindergarten |
| 1:29.0 | here. Then I went back to India. I spent some time in Indonesia. But most of my, you know, most of my |
| 1:37.0 | early life was in India. And then I came to the U.S. in the mid-1990s to go to grad school. I went to |
| 1:43.4 | Columbia Journalism School. After that, I came to the US in the mid-1990s to go to grad school. I went to Columbia Journalism School. |
| 1:45.9 | After that, I went to Princeton and I studied public policy there at what used to be called |
| 1:51.7 | the Woodrow Wilson School. |
| 1:53.6 | And then I went back to Asia, worked as a foreign correspondent for a few years, wrote a book about |
| 1:58.0 | the rise of radical Islam in Indonesia, and then found my way back, and I've been back in the U.S. since 2003, |
| 2:06.6 | and I've been in Washington since 2008. |
| 2:09.6 | Excellent. Thank you. |
| 2:12.6 | So one of the things you've written about over the course of many years that I took note of |
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