Ukrainian Journalist Blasts Media For Whitewashing Azov Batallion

Watch the full conversation with Lev here: 00:00 Intro 4:04 How Arnaud Bertrand started researching China 5:43 The West and China’s ongoing economic push and pull 9:07 What does the Biden Admin. want out of China? 11:42 Is the U.S. doing China’s bidding? 15:42 The similarities between Xenophobia and Anti-Semitism 21:00 AdBusters compares Xi Jinping to Hitler 27:45 Arnaud’s debate with Adrian Zenz 38:43 What western media gets wrong about China 44:09 Lev Golkin’s new article Ukrainian writer and journalist Lev Golinkin discusses the Western media’s whitewashing of the Azov Battalion. As he writes at The Nation, “before Russia invaded Ukraine, these fighters were neo-Nazis. They still are,“ Lev Golinkin is the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, Amazon’s Debut of the Month, a Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program selection, and winner of the Premio Salerno Libro d’Europa. Golinkin, a graduate of Boston College, came to the United States as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His writing on the Ukraine crisis, Russia, the far right, and immigrant and refugee identity has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe, and Time (online), among other venues; he has been interviewed by MSNBC, NPR, ABC Radio, WSJ Live and HuffPost Live. Arnaud Bertrand is an entrepreneur and a social activist. He founded HouseTrip in 2008 which grew to become one of Europe’s foremost tech startups and which he sold to TripAdvisor in 2016. He’s now working on his second venture, Me & Qi, which helps people understand how Traditional Chinese Medicine can benefit them. Arnaud is a frequent commentator on China, advocating for a better understanding of the country and its people as well as more friendly relationships between the West and China. ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps Join the Discord: