In this episode, Mick chats with Dr Brendan Taylor, an Associate Professor at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. They discuss his new book, The Four Flashpoints: How Asia goes to war. Brendan highlights the concept of a crisis slide and the four key strategic pressures that could lead to great power conflict in Asia.

Brendan offers a new take on the final question.

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