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he's as much a target as the protester's rath and the general population's anger at the established politicallite as gotabaya. so what sri lankans want is a current -- is a clean start. brent: so if they are not going to get this clean start anytime soon, where do you see this situation heading? guest: well, the ideal, which is far from ideal but is the best option, is for him to resign, for gotabaya to resign, then the speaker becomes the acting president, i believe it would be called interim president, until parliament sometime next week votes on a replacement president, who will act for as long, up to the full remaining part of gotabaya rajapaksa's term, but possibly a shorter period. that president, selected by parliament, would then have to come up with a prime minister would also have to win the confidence of parliament. so it should go as the constitution has described to parliament. it should not be through backroom deals between the rajapaksas. but whether he will, once gotabaya resigns, whether he will then leave the stage and follow rules as laid out in the constitution remains to

there is such a person, an australian, kevin rath, that someone in this studio even said during a break prime minister. now he is sitting in new york in a wonderful organization called asian society. uh, this is such a very respected resource, and he wrote an article that, well, uh, in general, everything, it's time to stop the us-china rivalry a. it takes on dangerous forms. and most importantly, he is happy to list the facts. it was fairy face. it was not wrong. sometimes with this appeared 6 hours ago. i read it and went here. uh, and that already the power structures understand that, well, it’s impossible to bully china any further, scare china with the visit of pelosi, there with these frigates and so on. that is it becomes dangerous because no one knows there is no scheme. there is no precedent, no clear picture. uh, how far this confrontation can go, therefore, kevin writes glad, but iron fences are needed. e for the competition between china and the usa well, it's like when a rhino is released somewhere on the arena, these are such terrible pieces of iron. here it is already pos