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Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective.

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  • 24 episodes
  • fortnightly
  • Avg 36 min
  • English

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  • S1 · E1
    May 25 · 32 min

    North Korean ICBMs, Albanese's New York tightrope, and the future of AUKUS

    Every second Thursday, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective. Compelling conversation, engaging debate and insightful perspectives. This series provides expert insights into Australia’s future in a changing world.“I this is this is for real a very genuine weakening of the credibility of US extended nuclear deterrence, towards North Korea in particular, as North Korea develops an intercontinental ballistic missile capability that can hit the United States, that increases the cost and risk to America of a nuclear strike on North Korea exponentially and therefore reduces the credibility of its extended nuclear deterrence posture.”

  • S1 · E13
    May 22 · 43 min

    The budget, the oil shock, the Thucydides trap, and the case for Australian optimism

    Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective. “I don't mind that framing, but my retort would be that the easiest and probably the cheapest and lowest risk way to ensure that China never becomes globally dominant is to ensure that China's own region remains perpetually contested. After all, what was the sort of geostrategic basis of American dominance? It's that it had a totally untroubled and uncontested Western hemisphere.”

  • S1 · E12
    May 8 · 32 min

    The B-21 Stealth Bomber: Does Australia need a weapon to strike mainland China?

    Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective.“A word shall mean whatever I want them to mean, as Humpty Dumpty said. “But I do think it's helpful for clarity to reserve the word alliance for a relationship which carries clear mutual commitments to military support in the event of conflict. And for quite a long time now, going back to a late 90s even, you've seen the evolution of the Japan-Australia relationship in the direction in which would that would appear to be a logical end point.“And obviously, the rise of China and growing doubts about the United States are what's behind that.”

  • S1 · E11
    April 24 · 41 min

    Is $53 billion the price of becoming a middle power?

    Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective. “It's worth bearing in mind that although the US and its partners have been bitterly opposed to Iran’s nuclear capability for decades, it was always clear that there was no military solution to that problem until Donald Trump decided, well, and Benjamin Netanyahu decided to see if there was. And what we discovered—again—is that there isn't. Most of the time, it's very difficult to achieve decisive strategic results through military operations. And even the ones that look like a success don't necessarily look like a success in the longer term.” Compelling conversation, engaging debate and insightful perspectives. This series provides expert insights into Australia’s future in a changing world. Foreign Exchange. Brought to you by Australian Foreign Affairs.

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