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Foreign Exchange
by Schwartz Media
Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective.
Episodes
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PLAN B: Counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen on how to defend Australia without submarines
This week, counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen joins Hugh White to discuss his article in Australian Foreign Affairs, Plan B: How to defend Australia without submarines, by David Kilcullen “There's two ways it could fail. “One could be that the US Virginia class submarines, which we were...
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MINI-EPISODE: Should Australia go to war with China over Taiwan?
Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective. “This is an extraordinarily serious choice. “Now, we might feel uncomfortable about the idea of the Chinese getting control of TSMC...
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‘Hoovering up’: How Australian spies operate
Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective. “All of those styles of intelligence except the last one —HUMINT— is, of course, undergoing fantastically rapid change in the last...
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MIDDLE EAST: The US is losing, so why isn’t Iran winning?
Subscribe to Australian Foreign Affairs: https://www.australianforeignaffairs.com/subscribe Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective. “Can I just finish this sector on one...
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BAMBOO DIPLOMACY: Vietnam and the art of not picking sides
Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective. “But there's another layer on top of this which is the Treaty of Rarotonga—the South Pacific Free Zone Treaty. And that treaty, to...
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‘Why would China even bother to attack if you don’t taunt her’: Sam & Hugh answer your comments
Subscribe to Australian Foreign Affairs: https://www.australianforeignaffairs.com/subscribe Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective. “And great powers do use armed force...
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AUSTRALIA: China’s ballistic missile test has strikingly little to do with us
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 think we should also underestimate our capacity to overplay our hands here. “There is a bit of a bullying tone to some of...
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The leapfrog to lithium-ion submarines: "If anyone can do this, it’s the Chinese"
Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective. “You have to be very clear where the capability trends are going. “Intentions can change quickly, but it's worth making the point...
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The many ways in which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is not Teddy Roosevelt
Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective.“The life type extension of the Collins—keeping as many Collins as possible in service and operationally viable for as long as...
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AUSTRALIA: The paradox of our wartime relationship with America
Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective.“This has been by far the biggest ballistic missile we've ever seen. I don't think we've ever seen anything like this number of...
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CHINA: Is Trump’s Iran war about a different theatre?
“I want to bring this home to our part of the world, our region. And your point about this being essentially performative tends to cut against one theory that's become popular among a certain element of the commentariat, which is that this is all about China.“That at the base of all this and the...
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Trumps Iranian cul-de-sac: 'not so much strategic as political'
Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective.“I want to quote from the speech itself…“The speech begins with a familiar critique. Anti-free trade, anti-mass…
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Sixth generation aircrafts and China's "immense" asymmetrical advantage
“We have seen in the development of the PLA over the last few decades, as fast an evolution of a military as the world has ever seen.” “You’d have to compare it with what Japan achieved after the Meiji Restoration or what the United States achieved in the late 19th and early 20th century, to have...
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Responding to Trump: Will Anthony Albanese follow Canada’s lead?
“We all suffer from availability bias. What's the thing that's moving the world? Well, what's the thing that I can recall quickest now? “Well, it's Trump. Because he's always there. He's always there. But there are bigger forces at play.“So, on Venezuela, for instance, Trump did this very…
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Trying to decipher the ‘wacky’ US National Security Strategy
“Now, the interesting thing about this national security strategy, it sort of declares the end of great power rivalry by saying, actually, America is content to live in a world with other great powers, and accept that other great powers will have their own spheres of influence."The language is...
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Would Australia choose Indonesia over America?
"There was that great quip from Henry Kissinger in the 1970s: if I want to talk to Europe, who do I call? "Now, of course, the answer to that question at the time and for long afterwards was Washington. If you want to talk to Europe, called Washington. In a strategic sense, Washington was the...
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House of Dynamite, ICBMs in flight, and how nuclear deterrence would really go down
"I really don't think the United States today has a functioning national government."This week, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White break down what Trump and Albanese's visit to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Kuala Lumpur tells us about the current state of power in Asia....
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Should Albanese expect the Zelenskyy treatment from Trump?
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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