👂🏼 I was thrilled to be invited to participate in Jean Ahlefeldt Laurvig and Shanelle Hall’s impressive podcast, we need to talk about this. We talked so much that they had to break up our conversation on in two parts. Links to both parts below
Part I
2:50 Mette’s start in China and establishing herself as a journalist
12:44 Competitive or collaborative journalist
17:28 China, Taiwan, Pelosi, the US, EU …. and a shift to a multipolar world
38:24 What would Mette advise President Xi? And, her time with the Dalai Lama.
53:50 Trust and extreme surveillance
1:04:49 Political prisoners or political pawns
Part II
1:00 The impact of Putin on pacifism ideology and social cohesion
13:26 Mette’s Thai father and growing up bi-racial
28:47 Stories of connecting with people across the world
40:20 Mette’s message to her younger self & her life-defining moments