Dr Warwick Powell (Adjunct Professor at QUT, sharp analyst of global political economy, China’s trajectory, and Australia’s alliance dilemmas) returns for a focused deep dive into the end of the old order: Mark Carney’s January 2026 Beijing pivot forging a Canada-China strategic partnership on energy and trade, his Davos declaration of a “rupture” in the rules-based system and urgent call for middle powers to unite against coercion, Trump’s swift revocation of Canada’s “Board of Peace” invite, Canadian military contingency planning for hypothetical US invasion, the US 2026 National Defense Strategy’s recalibration on China, and the opening this creates for Australia to rethink AUKUS, neocon orthodoxy, and pursue genuine sovereign independence in the multipolar era.
Joel. plz see Grayzone Pay Pal episode AU-Iranian with spectacular past.