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The World Next Week: Egyptian Military Crushes Protests, Japan and Russia Discuss Kuril Islands Dispute, and Al-Jazeera America Debuts

<p>Military police stand outside the Rabaa Adawiya mosque in Cairo on August 15 (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/ Courtesy Reuters).</p>
Military police stand outside the Rabaa Adawiya mosque in Cairo on August 15 (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/ Courtesy Reuters).

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Egypt’s continuing turmoil, the territorial dispute between Japan and Russia, and the debut of al-Jazeera America.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/editorial/2013/20130815_T…]

The highlights:

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Violence in Egypt: BBC News follows the situation in Egypt as it develops. Al-Jazeera reports that Morsi supporters plan to continue their protest. Steven Cook argues that not much has changed since the Mubarak era. Isobel Coleman argues that the United States should suspend its aid to Egypt.

Kuril Islands Dispute: BBC News summarizes the background of the dispute. Japan Today writes that both Japan and Russia will have to make “massive concessions” to reach a deal. The Voice of Russia says that Japan rejected a Russian proposal in July that would have created joint infrastructure projects on the islands.

Al-Jazeera America: The Los Angeles Times writes that al-Jazeera will face challenges succeeding with an American audience and details the network’s programing plans. The Wall Street Journal announces that Kate O’Brian of ABC news will be al-Jazeera America’s president. The Huffington Post reports that al-Jazeera English will no longer stream in the United States when al-Jazeera America debuts.