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From China to Saudi Arabia, how the rest of the world is responding to ISIS

By AirTalk Staff
Published Jan 6, 2016
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD - OCTOBER 14: U.S. President Barack Obama (C), Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey (R), US National Security Advisor Susan Rice (L), U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco (2nd L) and U.S. Central Command General Lloyd Austin III (2nd R) meet 20 foreign Chiefs of Defense to discuss coalition efforts in the ongoing campaign against ISIS on October 14, 2014 at Andrew Air Force Base in Maryland. Representatives from Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates also attended the meeting. (Photo by Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images)
U.S. President Barack Obama (C), Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin E. Dempsey (R), US National Security Advisor Susan Rice (L), U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco (2nd L) and U.S. Central Command General Lloyd Austin III (2nd R) meet 20 foreign Chiefs of Defense to discuss coalition efforts in the ongoing campaign against ISIS.
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From China to Saudi Arabia, how the rest of the world is responding to ISIS

We've heard plenty about how the US is responding to ISIS, but less about what the rest of the world is doing.

From China's crackdown on the movement of Uighurs, to an interpretation that reads Saudi Arabia's recent executions as a preemptive strike against ISIS, we look at how countries around the globe are attempting to protect themselves and what some of the unintended consequences of their actions may be.

Guest:

Seth Jones, Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND Corporation think tank; Jones has served as the representative for the commander, U.S. Special Operations Command, to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations; Author, "Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa'ida after 9/11"