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China's latest missile test over the South Pacific sparked alarm across Australia, New Zealand and Washington—but was the launch really about them?
In this episode Carl Zha speaks with Dr. Warwick Powell about the strategic meaning behind China's latest ICBM demonstration and why the message was aimed squarely at American military planners.
They discuss:
- Why China's second-strike capability changes strategic calculations
- Why Australia and New Zealand reacted differently to U.S. missile tests
- The future of Taiwan and America's alliances in Asia
- China's rapidly advancing space launch technology
- Reusable Long March boosters and the race with SpaceX
- China's expanding satellite capabilities and military implications
- Why Beijing sees satellites and submarines as the remaining capability gaps
- How new Chinese scientific breakthroughs could reshape the Global South
- The growing reality of a multipolar world
Dr. Warwick Powell argues that the world is entering a new strategic era—one in which assumptions that have dominated international politics for decades are rapidly becoming obsolete.
- Why China's second-strike capability changes strategic calculations
- Why Australia and New Zealand reacted differently to U.S. missile tests
- The future of Taiwan and America's alliances in Asia
- China's rapidly advancing space launch technology
- Reusable Long March boosters and the race with SpaceX
- China's expanding satellite capabilities and military implications
- Why Beijing sees satellites and submarines as the remaining capability gaps
- How new Chinese scientific breakthroughs could reshape the Global South
- The growing reality of a multipolar world
Dr. Warwick Powell argues that the world is entering a new strategic era—one in which assumptions that have dominated international politics for decades are rapidly becoming obsolete.