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Discussing the Diplomatic Boycotts of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games

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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean Join your host Alex Parsons, our Director of Intelligence, who is joined by our Asia-Pacific Analysts, Hans Horan and Aédán Mordecai, to discuss official delegates attendance at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Since Washington’s announcement of a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games early this […]

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Discussing the Presidential Elections in Libya

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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean Join your host Alex Parsons, our Director of Intelligence, who is joined by Valeria Scuto, our Middle East Analyst, and Anastasia Chisholm, our Middle East Associate Analyst, to discuss the mounting political divisions threatening to disrupt Libya’s presidential elections, due to take place on Friday, 24 December. A military

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Discussing Global Covid-19 Trends and the Omicron Variant

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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean John Breen, Lead Analyst for Global Risk at Sibylline is joined by North America Analyst James Hannan for a discussion on global Covid-19 trends following the emergence of the Omicron variant. Their conversation unpacks prevailing endemiological trends, including Europe’s ongoing infection wave, followed by an overview of further variant

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Discussing the latest Russian military build-up and the likelihood of war in Ukraine

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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean Last week US and Ukrainian intelligence published warnings over the most recent Russian military build-up along Ukraine’s eastern border, predicting that it may be a precursor to a larger military offensive in early 2022. Increasingly heated rhetoric between Moscow, Ukraine and NATO has ramped up regional tensions in recent

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Discussing the Terrorist Attack on Remembrance Sunday

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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean On 14 November, Remembrance Sunday, a man detonated an improvised explosive device outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital in the UK, killing himself just before the national two-minute silence. While the motive behind the attack remains uncertain at this stage, the incident was declared a terrorist incident by security services and

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Discussing the up-and-coming UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)

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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean The UN’s 26th Climate Change Conference (COP26) is set to take place in Glasgow between 31 October and 12 November. With environmentalist movements like Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace seeing it as a make-or-break summit, activist protests and direct actions are highly likely to cause significant disruption to businesses not

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China-Taiwan: Persistent Tensions, Possible Flashpoints and Potential Implications

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Listen on iTunes Listen on PodBean The past few days have seen tensions across the Taiwan Strait rise further as Beijing and Taipei marked their respective national days. China’s air force deployed a record number of warplanes into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ), while Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen again defended the island as a

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