The Rachman Review

Putin’s nuclear threat and China ‘friendship’

Apr 28, 2022

29:06

Creator website

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

The Chinese Military Forces Will Not Be Focused on Us

01:54

Do You Think It'll Make Them Think a Bit Harder About the Possibility of Attacking Tian?

01:56

Is There Any Scope for That Kind of Secret Undertaking?

01:46

Introduction

4min

Do You Think a Nucleus Strike Would Be a Good Idea?

2min

Is It Your Impression That the Byden Administration Is Concerned by the Threat of Nuclear War?

3min

Is It True That He's Amassed Murderer?

2min

The Missil Crisis - The Most Supported Foreign Policy Speech Ever

5min

Is There Any Scope for That Kind of Secret Undertaking?

2min

China and the US - What Are They Thinking?

4min

What Are They Thinking Bajing?

2min

The Chinese Military Forces Will Not Be Focused on Us

2min

10.

Do You Think It'll Make Them Think a Bit Harder About the Possibility of Attacking Tian?

2min

11.

Do You Think Russia's Yesterday's Problem Is the Us?

4min

Russia raised the spectre of nuclear war this week as it struggles to make headway in Ukraine. How seriously should this threat be taken and can Vladimir Putin rely on his friendship with China’s Xi Jinping? Gideon discusses these questions with US political scientist Graham Allison, author of the classic study of the Cuban missile crisis, ‘Essence of Decision’, and of a book on US-China relations, ‘Destined for War’.

Clips: ABC, Bloomberg

Want to read more?

‘At war with the whole world’: why Putin might be planning a long conflict in Ukraine

Biden, Putin and the danger of Versailles

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in maps

Subscribe to The Rachman Review wherever you get your podcasts - please listen, rate and subscribe.

Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Fiona Symon. Sound design by Jasiu Sigsworth

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.