Global Challenges: Balance 2021: the world according to Biden, Putin and Xi

Biden asks Putin to reduce tensions with Ukraine 5:17

Chaotic images that were not only humanly painful, but are believed to have seriously damaged the deterrent power of the

as the leading global power.

Desperate families sell their daughters to survive in Afghanistan 5:45

In 2021

Greetings, this is José Levy in the annual summary of the CNN

podcast

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The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan led to an extreme situation for millions of people who, unexpectedly, suddenly found themselves under the Islamist regime of the Taliban movement.

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Many were so terrified that they even tried to hang onto planes taking off from Kabul airport.

Even if something like that could… cost them their lives.

An extreme human concentration that was used by terrorists to carry out a horrifying suicide attack for which the terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibility, yes, again ISIS, specifically ISIS-K.

More than a hundred Afghans lost their lives, entire families were destroyed.

13 American soldiers also died.

• Small arms and ammunition from the United States arrive in Ukraine as the Pentagon assigns troops to train the country's army

Now, they are trying to find formulas that allow a humanitarian aid on a large scale that prevents a humanitarian catastrophe of biblical proportions.

Help, even if the sanctioned Taliban movement is the one in power.

Although in the West

is warned

not to invade its southern neighbor as seven years ago, Putin assured that the problem for him is that Ukraine becomes part of the NATO Atlantic alliance, something that would lead to US missiles, from within Ukraine they could threaten ... Russia.

Putin makes alarming remarks on cooperation with China 2:00

In any case, in 2021 Joe Biden changed the order of global priorities.For him, the central threats do not come from the Middle East, not even from Russia, but from the emerging great power of the future, well, already of the present, China.

In Washington there are fears of the growing influence of Beijing in world politics.

For example, when talking about what can happen to democracy in the world with this new protagonist.

Furthermore, there are fears of what may happen to human rights in places like Xinjian on the northwest side of China, with the Muslim minority of the Uyghurs, or in Taiwan where the military pressure from the Beijing regime only seems to increase.

Video shows police in China humiliating suspected smugglers 1:13

Other Global Challenges: 

The goal of COP26: save the world… from ourselves

Lebanon, on the brink of a new civil war?

China's menacing 'panda hug' to Taiwan

Taliban vs.

ISIS, the great Afghan fanatic duel

North Korea and its new "weapons of the apocalypse"

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