The Munk Debates Podcast
1) Friday Focus: China's great power performance and Mark Carney's bad budget messaging
This week's SCO summit in China projected a series of powerful images about the rise of China and the cleaving of the world into two power blocs. Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong Un watching the military parad...Show More
2) A public display of friendship between China, Russia, and India is a searing indictment of Trump's foreign policy
Rudyard and Andrew start the show talking about this week's China summit with 20 leaders of non-Western countries, including India, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Narendra Modi's public display of fri...Show More
3) Friday Focus: Trump takes aim at the CDC and Putin is undeterred
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding direc...Show More
4) Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: the US slides towards dictatorship and Carney clings to Canada's peacemaking past
In the past week alone there has been an FBI raid on John Bolton's home and a threat to investigate former New Jersey governor Chris Christie due to his criticism of Trump. Every day there are new ind...Show More
5) Friday Focus: Trump is a foreign policy wrecking ball, and Carney goes from elbows up to elbows down
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding direc...Show More
6) Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: a phony peace deal for Ukraine could put all of Europe at risk
Rudyard and Andrew unpack the latest meeting between Trump, Zelensky and European leaders that seems to have yielded no real progress in resolving the war in Ukraine. Trump indicated a willingness to ...Show More
7) Friday Focus: China's tax on Canadian canola and TIFF abandons the principles of free speech
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding direc...Show More
8) Friday Focus: Bibi's Gaza plan prioritizes his political survival over his country's interests and Putin dreams of a new Russian Empire
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding direc...Show More
9) Munk Dialogue with Andrew Coyne: America's checks and balances are failing to restrain Donald Trump
Rudyard and Andrew start the show trying to understand why Trump's radical steps on immigration, education, and foreign policy have been met with so little resistance. Where are the checks and balance...Show More
10) Friday Focus: A late night tariff announcement and Canada's plan to recognize a Palestinian state
Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding direc...Show More