🏭 Soviet Union

Keith Bennett discusses how China, Vietnam, and Cambodia, despite shared revolutionary origins, turned on each other in the late 1970s, with China backing the Khmer Rouge amid atrocities and territorial disputes shaping Beijing's decisions.

Keith Bennett joins Radhika Desai to examine why China backed the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, tracing territorial disputes with Vietnam and how shared revolutionary origins failed to prevent war among China, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

Lindiwe Zulu recounts her journey from young South African to exile, education in the Soviet Union, and time at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, then discusses small business, township economies, leadership, and public service.

Lindiwe Zulu's life spans exile after the 1976 Soweto uprising, journalism studies in Moscow, MK training camps, and frontline conflict in Angola, leading to her founding the Department of Small Business Development and reflecting on governance costs via Nkandla and Phala Phala.

Commemorates the 81st anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender, asserting that the post-WWII international order remains legally binding while condemning current Japanese right-wing forces, represented by Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae.

Profiles Zhang Guimei, a Chinese Communist Party cadre who founded the first free girls' high school in Yunnan Province to combat poverty and improve rural education.