Status Updates From Tom Clancy's Shadow of the ...

Clarke met the guy who should've smuggled him out the demanded ransom, Clarke killed him. Then an old man who is the boss of smuggling offered help. Turns out the bad guy was the original guy's cousin who got there early to try and Rob.
Midaz managed to talk his way out of the police station with his believable backstory and personality. The police seems convinced he ain't a part of the Clarke/Girl manhunt.

Clarke protecting the girl from rapists.
Side story of CIA agents in Albania interviewing escaped Uygers, as well as in Kazakhstan.
Another side plot of the doomed Chinese submarine, one of them shot himself up to the artic in brutal fashion. Now under the hands of Americans sailing with an Ice breaker.
POTUS invited moon to the white house personally.
It's just alright so far.

John sneaking into China,
Lots and I mean lots of human rights abuse in the xinjiang part.
Very uncomfortable look into the social credit system. A possible future in the UK seeing how things are going.

Ding and everyone got blown out of their helicopter with an attack on a Viet Oil rig inside the 9 dash lane.
Ding and Clarke reunited with JP Ding's son as well as Robby Jackson's nephew and spilled the beans on their real jobs.
CAMPUS now will try and figure out who the mole is before extracting lady/girl from Xinjiang.