This week's major shifts in the global balance

 In today's episode Just World Ed's Helena Cobban presents her review of the key shifts in the global balance that we've seen over the past week. This episode covers:

• The ongoing contest between NATO and Russia over Ukraine 
•  The two big diplomatic events in Beijing this week
• Implications of Pres. Macron's visit to Beijing
• Implications of the new rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and
• The effects of this rapprochement on developments in the Mashreq area of West Asia.