ChinesePod Today: India’s Election Continues Amidst Political Tension (simp. characters)
  • 5 years ago
ChinesePod News (April 19, 2019)

India held the second round of its parliamentary elections on Thursday, with voting taking place in 13 states. These included the territory of Kashmir, authority over which has been a difficult political issue for decades. National security in Kashmir has also been used as a main campaign topic for the sitting prime minister Narendra Modi, who hopes to get re-elected for a second term.

NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/gggvdrZ2zM4

This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:

投票 to vote
争议 to dispute
主权 sovereignty
分裂主义派 separatist party
分治 partition

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