{"id":12365,"date":"2021-01-24T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=154008"},"modified":"2021-01-24T12:28:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T12:28:11","slug":"majlis-podcast-biden-and-central-asia-three-former-ambassadors-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/24\/majlis-podcast-biden-and-central-asia-three-former-ambassadors-weigh-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Majlis Podcast: Biden And Central Asia \u2014 Three Former Ambassadors Weigh In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/0f2bae43-c03d-4c51-b28f-666ca60ee007_cx0_cy3_cw0_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>On January 20, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. How might the new U.S. leadership change policy toward Central Asia? What might the Central Asian states be looking for from the Biden administration? And what aspects of U.S.-Central Asian relations are likely to remain the same?<\/p>\n<p>On this week&#8217;s Majlis podcast, RFE\/RL media-relations manager Muhammad Tahir moderates a discussion on those questions and more.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s guests are: from Bishkek, the former Kyrgyz ambassador to the United States, Kadyr Toktogulov; from Washington, the former U.S ambassador to Kyrgyzstan and later Uzbekistan, Pamela Spratlen; also from Washington, the former U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan and later Georgia, William Courtney; and from Prague, Bruce Pannier, the author of the Qishloq Ovozi blog.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the podcast above or <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/cz\/podcast\/majlis-radio-free-europe-radio\/id1086142112?mt=2\"  rel=\"noopener\">subscribe to the Majlis on iTunes<\/a><\/strong> or on <strong><a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmZlcmwub3JnL3BvZGNhc3QvP2NvdW50PTUwJmRheWNvdW50PTMwMDAmem9uZUlkPTE5ODg3\"  rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/24\/majlis-podcast-biden-and-central-asia-three-former-ambassadors-weigh-in\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 20, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States. How might the new U.S. leadership change policy toward Central Asia? What might\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,332,337,4,23,350,163,467,211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12366,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}