Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is The Point. 80 years ago,
over 100 million people were killed and wounded in the world anti-fascist war.
In the summer of 1945,
50 countries came together in San Francisco and agreed on an international treaty known as the UN Charter,
which paved the way for the establishment of the UN later that year.
This formed the political basis of a new international order,
an order intended to enshrine the equal rights of all people and maintain peace.
How has this order shaped the world we live in today?
Are the ambitious goals faring today?
And what may be undermining this order, which was so hard won?
Welcome to a special edition of The Point with me,
Li Xin, and Opinion Show coming to you from Beijing.
I'm pleased to be joined from Lund, Sweden, by Jan Olberg,
co-founder of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research,
from Taipei, Taiwan province, by Professor Liu Fukuo,
research fellow at the Institute of International Relations.
the National Chung Chee University.
From Manila, the Philippines, by Romel Banloy,
president of the Philippine Society for International Security Studies.