With Your Shield or On It

This week Loren, Erin, and Radha are joined by the peerless Mira Rapp-Hooper. Taking a break from stalking her perfect oat milk, Mira walks the ladies through alliances and shifting demands with Japan and Korea. The ladies do a whirlwind review of Hong Kong, Bolivia, auto tariffs, and pardons. After 5 words (plus margin of error) on impeachment stories of note, Erin and Radha (yup Radha) discuss the new Star Wars series where to Loren's dismay Radha declares her love of Star Wars puppets (especially those teddy bears).   Links Mira Rapp-Hooper, , (Harvard University Press, 2020) Asia Simon Denyer and Min Joo Kim, "," Washington Post, November 4, 2019 Phil Stewart and Joyce Lee, "," Reuters, November 15, 209=19 Maggie Shum, "," Washington Post, November 14, 2019 Anna Kam, Casey Quackenbush, and Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, "," Washington Post, November 11, 2019 Bolivia  "" BBC, November 13, 2019 Natasha Bennett, "" Washington Post, November 15, 2019 Santiago Anria and Jennifer Cyr, "," Washington Post, October 30, 2019 Trade Ben White and Doug Palmer, "," Politico, November 11, 2019 David Shepardson, "," Reuters, November 15, 2019 Camila Domonoske and Avie Schneider, "," NPR, May 17, 2019 Reuters, "," New York Times, November 11, 2019 Pardons Dave Philipps, "," New York Times, November 16, 2019