Dan Ryan, Executive Director of NatCon Australia and Jordan Knight, Founder of Migration Watch get together for regular catch-up:

We discuss among other things:

• Thoughts on recent Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) event in Sydney which we both attended - pros and cons, best and worst speakers, etc.
• The high end arts and culture style of ARC - pros and cons
• The extent to which national conservative themes were touched on by speakers on stage (not much) but which were discussed at length by many attendees on sidelines
• How real threat to US and West is descent in to South American politics rather than Cold War or WWII
• How battles of the future less about ideology and more about demography
• Thoughts on upcoming US election and what it means for Australia

We speak with Isaac Stone Fish the founder and CEO of Strategy Risks - a business intelligence firm focusing on geopolitical risk.

He is the former Beijing correspondent for Newsweek and worked in China for many years. Amongst his many other current roles he serves as a contributor to CBS News, is an adjunct at NYU's Center for Global Affairs and has positions on the Atlantic Council and the Council on Foreign Relations

He is the author of America Second: How America’s Elites are Making China Stronger (Knopf) and lives in New York City.

https://www.isaacstonefish.com/

https://www.amazon.com.au/America-Second-Americas-Elites-Stronger/dp/0525657703

Among other things we discuss:

• What US-China relations would look like under President Trump or President Harris
• His book "America Second" and the history of influence peddling by former senior American officials in China
• Key issues such as Xinjiang, Taiwan, TikTok, Telsa, China and US Tech entrepreneurs
• What a more ethical and sophisticated approach for companies "engaging" with China should look like

We speak with UK academic Dr Kit Kowol about his newly released book, "Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War"

We discuss among other things:

• Why did British public vote out in a landslide Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party in 1945?
• How might the United Kingdom and the British Empire have been different if the Conservatives had won in 1945?
• Lord Beaverbrook and how his realist views were reflective of a significant part of the Conservative Party
• Other myths about WWII and the early post war period that should be discarded

Book available here:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Blue-Jerusalem-British-Conservatism-Churchill/dp/0198868499