Briefing Room 11.04.26: Mexico After the Cartel Violence, and the Taiwanese Opposition's Dangerous Game

Welcome back to the briefing room, the weekly show that quietly tugs on the sleeve of mainstream media and voices in it's here. You know, the stuff happening in the world's beyond the obvious headlines. Was that two quires?

Probably pick up a book. This week, our trip beyond the headlines is taking us to two specific locations.

First, we're off to Mexico, where the reverberations of the short-lived cartel uprising at the end of February continue to echo across the political landscape, and then it's on to Taipei, where Taiwan's opposition is playing a dangerous game trying to court Beijing, even as China's rhetoric toward the island grows ever more harsh.