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Munk Dialogue with Gideon Rachman: The Age of the Strongman
The Munk Debates Podcast
The MBS, Mohammed Bin Salman, Is Playing Court to the Chinese
The MBS, Mohammed bin Salman, seems to certainly have a lot of the attributes that would model him into one of your prototypical kind of strong men. I think he's a strange figure in the sense that he's both an autocrat and a modernizer. He is liberalizing on cultural freedoms, but politically they keep locking people up, executing people as far as we know,. Also murdering them overseas in the case of Khashoggi. So he's a paradoxical for, you know, potentially a rather dangerous one because he's very headstrong, very ruthless, very rich, and he's going to be around for a long time.
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