Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago

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In the latest episode of Stop the World, Justin Bassi speaks to Abe Denmark, former senior advisor to US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III and now non-resident senior associate with the Asia Program at CSIS. Given their respective roles in the US and Australian governments to establish AUKUS, Abe and Justin discuss the need for the partnership and how it came together. They also outline what the three countries now need to do to make it work to deliver greater regional stability and security, as well as opportunities for broader collaboration with trusted partners.



Beyond AUKUS, they also discuss the global strategic outlook, and the challenges the US and its partners are grappling with – conflict in the Middle East and Europe, and an increasingly assertive China in the Indo-Pacific – and its strategy in managing multiple crises at once.



   



Mentioned in this episode:



https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-needs-to-engage-its-youth-population-around-aukus/  



 



Guests:



Justin Bassi (https://www.aspi.org.au/bio/justin-bassi)



Abraham M. Denmark (csis.org/people/abraham-m-denmark)