On Friday’s Global Focus segment, we're talking about the Indian elections and their potential implications on the country's foreign policy. Should we expect continuity regardless of the outcome?

After 9:30, we get a political scientist's analysis on the ninth Japan-China-South Korea trilateral summit which comes at a time of deepening regional tensions. Is this an olive branch?


And after 9:45, we'll learn more about ways through which we can all play our part in reducing plastic waste.



9:00am - 9:30am: India elections
9:05am-9:30am: MK Bhadrakumar, former Indian diplomat who served as Ambassador to Turkey and Uzbekistan, author and analyst
9:05am-9:30am: Sumit Ganguly, Rabindranath Tagore Professor, Political Science Distinguished Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
9:30am-9:45am: Trilateral summit
9:30am-9:45am: Prof. Brian Bridges, former Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at Lingnan University. He is an author and Asian affairs consultant
9:45am-10:00am: Waste reduction
9:45am-10:00am: Dana Winograd, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Plastic Free Seas