in the work i've done in global health and development people ask how to work in a country like the drc or there's very complicated if not -- generally corrupt government, many other places in the world that have authoritarian leadership, dictatorships or otherwise and i fells my line -- my -- i think those places are the most important places to do practical activism because people have to find a way, maybe within the guidelines of the government if that's necessary, but to keep nudging change and if have had the privilege of working with activists in the drc and china and wouldn't call themselves activists. people doing day-to-day things to say i need to write a paper to understand how this should work. i need to nudge my local official to think differently about that problem. i need to build an app that enables people to talk to each other more pout this -- i have watched that in some of the most repressed regimes in the world, and i -- the thing always would say to my teams is, look, the kids that opportunity gate right to a fair and equitable life is the same kid in a democratic re

office declarations about the corruption, the fraud and the challenges in the transition of power in the drcso you're right that traditionally the united states is the broker of election integrity in places all around the world, and it's astonishing to see this being played out here in the u.s., but i have to say, joy, there isn't a single thing that donald trump is doing right now that any of us could not have anticipated. those of us who invested in planning scenarios about this expected this. the problem isn't donald trump. the problem is the republican leadership in the senate, in the house, in the states where they have authority over election outcomes. they're not doing what some extraordinary secretaries of states are doing, calling out the lies, calling out the danger and the damage to democracy and educating their constituents and voters about what this does to our norms in the future. incredibly dangerous. >> yeah, indeed. they're sort of acting more like a douma than an american political party. a russian douma. maya, we're going to have to talk at some point about your run for ma

the vaccitions were done where the diseaseci was happeningn west africa and most recently in the drc. i'm not sure we learned aut the social side of i we did learn abo some other things. the antibodies that are now showing promise. a similar approach for ebola in a challenging trial that was run essentially in a war zone that shows they could be lifesaving and gave confidence that this could work for other diseases. i think when it comes to the social science part in our own country, you have to look at other examples and there is nothing quite likehat we are looking at now in terms of something so devastating the most horrible paemic we he had and all of the public attention that comes with it it's a little hard to extrapolate. we can look at the fact there's been growing in some quarters a vaccine hesitancy and this has certainly given an opportunity for those anxieties to expand. social media has been great at promotin conspiracy theories. i don't know if you've looked at that on the social media. some of them are creative but there are people i talke to that say i'm not going to h

these islands are both the sea of the government of the republic of china, commonly referred to as drc, as well as the armed fortress of the military establishment. on taiwan is a island of considerable variety. the eastern half is dominated by a chain of rugged mountains. while the west lies flatten as, planes ideal for the combination of, rice sugar, and pineapples. the many rural villages serve to emphasize the continuity underlying the traditions and culture. only a few minutes away stand the modern cities of taipei and type of. much like the movement of 20th century living. under the -- during the korean war it became apparent that the security of taiwan and the offshore islands was vital to the free world's defense perimeter. since these islands face a constant threat of direct aggression from communism, 1951 the unit states began the first military advisory assistance program. today, taiwan protected by 11 systems, of underground fortifications supports