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Foreign Exchange

Schwartz Media

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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23 episodes

  1. MIDDLING POWER: Can we handle being alone in the Pacific? 44:27
  2. PLAN B: Counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen on how to defend Australia without submarines 32:29
  3. MINI-EPISODE: Should Australia go to war with China over Taiwan? 23:17
  4. ‘Hoovering up’: How Australian spies operate 23:03
  5. MIDDLE EAST: The US is losing, so why isn’t Iran winning? 39:04
  6. BAMBOO DIPLOMACY: Vietnam and the art of not picking sides 37:57
  7. ‘Why would China even bother to attack if you don’t taunt her’: Sam & Hugh answer your comments 51:47
  8. AUSTRALIA: China’s ballistic missile test has strikingly little to do with us 44:20
  9. The leapfrog to lithium-ion submarines: "If anyone can do this, it’s the Chinese" 39:30
  10. The many ways in which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is not Teddy Roosevelt 37:18
  11. AUSTRALIA: The paradox of our wartime relationship with America 39:24
  12. CHINA: Is Trump’s Iran war about a different theatre? 35:55
  13. Trumps Iranian cul-de-sac: 'not so much strategic as political' 33:25
  14. Sixth generation aircrafts and China's "immense" asymmetrical advantage 32:51
  15. Responding to Trump: Will Anthony Albanese follow Canada’s lead? 36:29
  16. Trying to decipher the ‘wacky’ US National Security Strategy 32:42
  17. Would Australia choose Indonesia over America? 36:08
  18. House of Dynamite, ICBMs in flight, and how nuclear deterrence would really go down 34:57
  19. Should Albanese expect the Zelenskyy treatment from Trump? 35:43
  20. North Korean ICBMs, Albanese's New York tightrope, and the future of AUKUS 32:48
  21. The budget, the oil shock, the Thucydides trap, and the case for Australian optimism 43:29
  22. The B-21 Stealth Bomber: Does Australia need a weapon to strike mainland China? 32:50
  23. Is $53 billion the price of becoming a middle power? 41:09