{"id":65043,"date":"2021-06-11T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=65043"},"modified":"2021-06-11T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:22:36","slug":"policy-guns-and-money-taiwan-climate-change-and-the-cost-of-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/policy-guns-and-money-taiwan-climate-change-and-the-cost-of-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy, Guns and Money: Taiwan, climate change and the cost of defence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently, national security debates in the United States and Australia have been heavily focused on the possibility of conflict in the Taiwan Strait. The Strategist<\/em>\u2019s Anastasia Kapetas is joined by Ryan Hass, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, to discuss the credibility of this narrative. They talk about the likelihood of conflict over Taiwan and how Taiwan can counter China\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

Robert Glasser, head of ASPI\u2019s Climate and Security Policy Centre, is joined by Natasha Kassam, director of the public opinion and foreign policy program at the Lowy Institute, to discuss the 2021 release of Lowy\u2019s annual climate poll<\/a>, which gauges Australians\u2019 attitudes to climate change.<\/p>\n

ASPI\u2019s annual Cost of defence<\/em> report breaks down the funding and expenditure of the Department of Defence, examining key areas of growth, acquisition spending and investment. Report author Marcus Hellyer discusses some of the trends highlighted in this year\u2019s report<\/a> with Peter Jennings, and the increasing financial concern around Defence\u2019s external workforce.<\/p>\n