Happy Lunar/Chinese New Year! Chun jie kuai le! 春节快乐！

Join American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, living in Asia, as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! In this week's episode:

• As China prepares to celebrate its biggest annual holiday, the Lunar New Year, the country and the world face a growing coronavirus epidemic. Not very humorous 

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Bill & Nikolaj

Happy 2020! 🎉🎉🎉

Kind of, anyway.

Join American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, living in Asia, as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! In this week's episode:

• The US assassinates an Iranian leader, and Iran strikes back. It's gonna be fine, FINE.

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Join American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, living in Asia, as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! In this week's episode:

• Trump's impeachment is done, but the fun is just beginning in the US Senate

For more on India's new law and the protests that have resulted:

https://on.ft.com/2EyfGW5

And for more on the Phase 1 trade deal between the US and China:

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3042809/chinas-trading-partners-wary-phase-one-deal-while-analysts

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Join American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, living in Asia, as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! In this week's episode:

• A fascinating conversation with Amit Prothi, recently of the 100 Resilient Cities project, on how urban areas can survive and thrive in the future

To find out more about the 100 Resilient Cities project:

https://www.100resilientcities.org/

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Join American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, living in Asia, as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! In this week's episode:

• The Afghanistan Papers show we've all been lied to about the war

To find the Washington Post stories on Afghanistan:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/

To find Thomas Jestin's article and more about him:

http://livewithai.org/ai-makes-technological-progress-fast/

https://www.thomasjestin.com/

And a couple other items we mentioned:

https://andrewmcafee.org/more-from-less/overivew

https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/matrix

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Join American Bill Poorman and Dutchman Nikolaj Groeneweg, living in Asia, as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! In this week's episode:

• Articles of impeachment shall be

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Join an American (Bill Poorman) and a Dutchman (Nikolaj Groeneweg), living in Asia, as they take you on a humorously serious and seriously humorous romp through the week's international news! In this week's episode:

• Facebook, Google, and other social media platforms - or is that publishers?

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After a short hiatus traveling the region and covering events, hosts Bill Poorman (the American) and Nikolaj Groeneweg (the Dutchman) are back to take you on a romp through the week's international news! In this week's episode:

• The unrest in Hong Kong worsens, and it's hard to see where it's all going

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Hosts Bill Poorman (the American) and Nikolaj Groeneweg (the Dutchman) take you on a romp through the week's international news! In this week's episode:

• China's trumping the U.S. in rich people and unicorns

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Hosts Bill Poorman (the American) and Nikolaj Groeneweg (the Dutchman) are flying solo again on this one. In this week's episode:

• Bill is fresh off the latest Democratic party debate, and he's none too impressed with some of what he saw

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