Diplomates – A Geopolitical Chinwag

Recorded from the ground in Kyiv, Ukraine:

Pavlo Khazan, a Reserve Major in Ukraine’s armed forces and a signals officer of Jewish Ukrainian descent, is defiant in the face of unbelievable odds.

A prominent leader of the Maiden movement and a veteran of the Donbas wars, Misha Zelinsky meets him at a friend’s place only hours before he boards a train to travel 500 kilometres east to his hometown of Dnipro – directly into the Russian storm.

An environmental engineer with a PhD in statistics, the once leading European eco-warrior has made the shift to battled hardened defender of his nation over the last decade. With the stakes so high, he appeals to the world for help in what he calls “critical moment for global democracy

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Lots going on in the world, so who better to join us for a chinwag than Hagar Chemali of Oh My World!

The US Mid Terms and why might be (actually) finished.

Ukraine and averting World War 3.

The latest from the G20: Biden and Xi, Xi and Albanese and an isolated Putin.

Iranians protest and what happens next.

Qatar and FIFA.

Elon and Twitter.

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Dr Michael Fullilove is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute. An adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating, Rhodes Scholar and renowned foreign affairs expert, Dr Fullilove is a widely published author and a much sought after global commentator.

Misha Zelinsky caught up with Michael Fullilove for a chinwag about how Australia should interact with a rising China under Xi Jinping, the madness of US politics and what a second Trump term might look like, how open systems of government still have the upper hand, why the world might be one elected leader away from a new sense of calm, and why - despite everything - Michael remains an unabashed optimist about the future. Be sure to listen to Michael's special shout out to the 'Deep State'!

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Chin-up Chingwaggers, it’s the Christmasode with Hagar Chemali! It’s been a rough year, but we made it.

Misha and Hagar Chemali wrap up 2022 with a huge chat.

• FIFA World Cup and Qatari sports washing
• Xi’s China COVID Zero trap and why autocrats are doomed to fail
• Britney Griner, hostage diplomacy and a shift in US policy
• Iranian protests continue.
• So does Elon’s Twitter meltdown.
• And Trump. Remember him?

And more!

Merry Christmas to everyone, except the autocrats!

Check out Misha Zelinsky’s column in the Australian Financial Review here: https://www.afr.com/by/misha-zelinsky-p5363h

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Amb. Bi-khim Hsiao is Taiwan’s diplomatic representative to the United States.

Bi-khim is a decorated Taiwanese politician, having served twice in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (Taiwan’s lower house) as an elective representative of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). She is a passionate advocate for a peaceful and open Indo-Pacific as well as a defender of democracy at home and abroad.

I caught up with Bi-Khim for a chinwag about the history of Taiwan and its relationship with the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan’s flourishing and highly performing democracy, the relentless grey zone and political warfare efforts that the Taiwanese people are enduring from the CCP, the threat of CCP military invasion, why we must not allow Taiwan to be erased from global discussions, the importance of human rights globally, how the world can maintain peace and avoid war, and most critically what the Taiwanese people want for themselves and from the world.

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