The World Next Week: Federal Budgets, Foreign Threats, Xi Jinping, and Egyptian Prosecutions

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the Obama administration’s FY 2013 budget; the Senate Armed Services Committee’s upcoming hearing on worldwide threats; Chinese Vice President Xi Jingping’s visit to the United States; and the one-year anniversary of Hosni Mubarak’s ouster from power.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/editorial/2012/20120209_T…]

The highlights:

The Wall Street Journal says the proposed budget plan has a “familiar ring” to it, and the Associated Press details the Republican-led House’s efforts to give President Obama line-item veto authority. Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper’s unclassified testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is available here, and the Eurasia Group has published its “Top Risks 2012” report. The Chicago Tribune profiles Xi Jingping, and Reuters explains the “trust deficit” between the United States and China that the upcoming visit could ease. The BBC reports that there are “mixed emotions” on the anniversary of Mubarak’s ouster, and Mohamed Elmasry of the Egyptian Gazette claims that the one-year-old revolution is fragile “at best.”