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Fighting To Learn
An international court has filed charges against the men who run Afghanistan’s schools. Two women deprived of an education suggest what that is worth.
October 23, 2026
Michael Auslin and John Yoo welcome Nadege Rolland to the podcast.After working as a China analyst for the French Government for two decades, Rolland joined the National Bureau of Asian Research as a senior fellow. Her new report, “China’s Vision for a New World Order” discusses how the Chinese Communist Party is using “discourse power” to delegitimize liberal ideas and values and reshape global norms. Beijing is then challenging Western and American ideas of what the global order should look like, in order to create its own hegemony. Rolland sees this new hegemony as partial, loose, and malleable, stretching across the globe, with a particular focus on the Global South.
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