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Foreign Exchange

Schwartz Media

23 episodes

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

Episodes

  1. MIDDLING POWER: Can we handle being alone in the Pacific?

    · 44 min · S1 E23

    Every fortnight, Sam Roggeveen and Hugh White discuss major developments in international affairs affecting Australia and the region, from an Australian perspective. “I never took never took the Chinese military bases…

  2. PLAN B: Counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen on how to defend Australia without submarines

    · 32 min · S1 E22

    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…

  3. MINI-EPISODE: Should Australia go to war with China over Taiwan?

    · 23 min · S1 E21

    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,…

  4. ‘Hoovering up’: How Australian spies operate

    · 23 min · S1 E20

    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…

  5. MIDDLE EAST: The US is losing, so why isn’t Iran winning?

    · 39 min · S1 E19

    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…

  6. BAMBOO DIPLOMACY: Vietnam and the art of not picking sides

    · 38 min · S1 E18

    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…

  7. ‘Why would China even bother to attack if you don’t taunt her’: Sam & Hugh answer your comments

    · 52 min · S1 E17

    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…

  8. AUSTRALIA: China’s ballistic missile test has strikingly little to do with us

    · 44 min · S1 E16

    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…

  9. The leapfrog to lithium-ion submarines: "If anyone can do this, it’s the Chinese"

    · 40 min · S1 E15

    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…

  10. The many ways in which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is not Teddy Roosevelt

    · 37 min · S1 E14

    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…

  11. AUSTRALIA: The paradox of our wartime relationship with America

    · 39 min · S1 E10

    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…

  12. CHINA: Is Trump’s Iran war about a different theatre?

    · 36 min · S1 E9

    “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…

  13. Trumps Iranian cul-de-sac: 'not so much strategic as political'

    · 33 min · S1 E8

    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…

  14. Sixth generation aircrafts and China's "immense" asymmetrical advantage

    · 33 min · S1 E7

    “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…

  15. Responding to Trump: Will Anthony Albanese follow Canada’s lead?

    · 36 min · S1 E6

    “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…

  16. Trying to decipher the ‘wacky’ US National Security Strategy

    · 33 min · S1 E5

    “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…

  17. Would Australia choose Indonesia over America?

    · 36 min · S1 E4

    "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…

  18. House of Dynamite, ICBMs in flight, and how nuclear deterrence would really go down

    · 35 min · S1 E3

    "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…

  19. Should Albanese expect the Zelenskyy treatment from Trump?

    · 36 min · S1 E2

    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…

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

    · 33 min · S1 E1

    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…

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

    · 43 min · S1 E13

    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…

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

    · 33 min · S1 E12

    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…

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

    · 41 min · S1 E11

    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…

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