Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald

Hamish and Geraldine dig into the questions you actually want answered.
From how to break out of our political and cultural echo chambers, to making sense of Donald Trump’s behaviour, to the lessons history offers about what middle powers can achieve - inspired, no doubt, by Canada PM Mark Carney.
Plus, we look ahead to a very particular VIP visit from the Middle East to Australia.
Suggested reading/watching mentioned in this episode:
The Kaiser At Mar A Lago
Lowy Interpreter Middle Powers Can’t Run The World
UnHoly - Two Jews On The News 
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With the purging of another top general, China's President Xi Jinping has ripped a hole in the People's Liberation Army leadership. Only two of his nine top generals remain in office.
It's been explained as an anti-corruption move, but what's really going on? And how will it impact Beijing's behaviour towards Taiwan? 
Guest: Neil Thomas, Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis
Mentions:
"China's top general accused of giving nuclear secrets to US" - Wall Street Journal
 "The demise of Zhang Youxia hits different" - Drew Thomson, Substack article.
Recommendations:
Geraldine: It was just an accident - film, dir. Jafar Panahi
Hamish: But also John Clarke - documentary, ABC iView
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The former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has spent his working life on the frontline of humanitarian crises - from the "catastrophic" situation in Sudan, to Syria in the Middle East. But with the international rules-based order facing an existential crisis of its own, is the UN still up to scratch?
As he steps down from his role, Filippo talks to Kylie Morris and Latika Bourke about why the world shouldn't turn away from Sudan, and why Trump's Gaza 'Board of Peace' will never replace the UN - for all its flaws.
Guest: Filippo Grandi, former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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Standing ovations are rare at Davos, the annual World Economic Forum conference. But Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney tore the roof down with a speech calling on the world's middle powers to forge a united path away from the hegemony of American power. And Trump isn't happy about it. 
Geraldine Doogue and Latika Bourke speak to former Canadian Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff about how much Australia and Canada have in common, and why Europe and Great Britain are the middle powers to watch. 
Guest: Michael Ignatieff, Professor at the Central European University in Vienna and former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
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Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is a China hawk, and if she wins February's snap election, she'll use that mandate to prepare for conflict over Taiwan.
So says the former Japanese ambassador to Australia, who's a foreign policy whisperer, well connected to the Prime Minister.
But is President Trump on board? And what about Canberra?
Guest: Shingo Yamagami, former Japanese ambassador to Australia 
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