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The World Next Week: Kerry Visits Asia, Obama Proposes a Budget, and Egypt Retries Mubarak

<p>Secretary of State John Kerry walks across the tarmac of Baghdad International Airport on a March visit to Iraq (Jason Reed/Courtesy Reuters).</p>
Secretary of State John Kerry walks across the tarmac of Baghdad International Airport on a March visit to Iraq (Jason Reed/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 gave up his seat this week so that Isobel Coleman and I could discuss Secretary of State John Kerry’s trip to East Asia, President Obama’s forthcoming budget proposal, and former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s re-trial in Cairo. Isobel directs CFR’s Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, and she is the author of the beautifully written book, Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East. If you haven’t read it, you should.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/editorial/2013/20130404_T…]

The highlights:

For more on the topics we discussed in the podcast check out:

Kerry visits South Korea, China, and Japan: The New York Times has a chronology of rising tensions with North Korea and news on the U.S. decision to speed up the deployment of a missile defense system in Guam.  Bloomberg Businessweek reports on Kerry’s meeting with South Korean foreign minister Yun. Voice of America writes that North Korea will be the main topic of discussion on Kerry’s upcoming trip.

Obama releases his budget: The National Priorities Project explains how the United States is running without a budget this current fiscal year and compares three budgets proposed by Congress and public opinion data for what changes Americans support. The Washington Post has interactive graphs comparing the budgets passed by the House and Senate, as well as two that failed in the House.

Egypt re-tries Mubarak: BBC News profiles Mubarak and reviews the legal proceedings against him and his top officials. The Los Angeles Times reports on Mubarak’s retrial. The Globe and Mail covers Mubarak’s legacy and the consequences his policies had on his regime’s survival.