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This is also highlighted by President Xi calling on BRICS countries to uphold a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security vision.

So what do you make of the declaration and President Xi's remarks here? With conflicts and bloc confrontation on the rise, how can BRICS move beyond the old model of major power rivalry and offer a new approach to global security governance through the collective deterrence of emerging countries?

You know, this common comprehensive cooperative and sustainable security language isn't new.

It echoes a security concept China has been developing for years, but it's being pitched now as an explicit alternative to block politics.

Stable China-India relations are a precondition for any serious regional stability across South and Central Asia.

And for the broader idea that large developing countries can cooperate as partners rather than being pulled into a bipolar contest between US and China.

Now, the one thing that I would add to this is that I recall Several years ago, President Xi made it clear that he was convinced that security, global security, while it is a global problem, that it can begin and should begin in Asia, including greater Asia.

And I think that that emphasis is something that we continue to see in what he said at this meeting.

As we look backwards now and assess the longer-term consequences of September 11th, how has it changed our world? Has 9/11 been a catalyst for an era of fading American dominance, with the US response leading to a change in perceptions of American power around the world? What have been the results of the war on terror, and how has it affected militaries and modern warfare? And finally, what are the implications for today in a Middle East still riven by conflict and across a world characterized by great power rivalries? With me today in the studio, I'd like to welcome first General Sir Richard Barrons, who served both in Afghanistan and Iraq during his career with the British Army before becoming commander of the Joint Forces Command until his retirement in 2016.

Sir Richard is a senior consulting fellow with our International Security program at Chatham House.

Good to see you, Sir Richard.

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Hello, Farea.

Good to be with you.

And we're pleased to also welcome our guest today, Jason Burke, international security correspondent with The Guardian and the author of books including The 9/11 Wars and also Al Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam, and most recently, The Revolutionists.

Thank you for joining us, Jason.

Paul King is a former editor of NATO Review.

Natia Siskouria is a RUSI Associate Fellow in International Security.

And Edward Knudsen is Economic Security Analyst at RAND Europe.

Natia, to you first of all, are we looking at a long-term confrontation here between Germany and Russia?

Yeah.

So let's get into this now with Nick Wadhams, who is our managing editor for international security and the economy here at Bloomberg and is with us in our DC studio.

Now, Nick, we've seen reports from a semi-official news agency in Iran that Iran is planning retaliation for the retaliation, which was also retaliation.

Is this spiraling at this point?

eruption or something larger well the big challenge we have really is that the administration does not often detail precisely what the strikes hit but what we're looking for a few things one is obviously the extent of the damage do they broaden to civilian targets and what does that mean then also then what is the Iranian response do they hit US bases and that really is the big question for us going forward

threatening to do just that Nick Wadhams, thank you.

Bloomberg News Managing Editor, International Security and Economy with the breaking news that we have been managing throughout the past two hours, the resumption of strikes against Iran.

Thanks for listening to the Balance of Power podcast.

He's widely recognised for his work on the future character of warfare, on military strategy and insurgency.

He holds a doctorate in modern history from Oxford University and is the author of several influential books and articles, one of which includes The Sling and the Stone, a book that examines the evolution of modern conflict, de-globalisation and international security, another book that looks at how shifts in the global economic system have reshaped strategic competition.

TX has commanded at multiple levels and has worked extensively on irregular warfare and insurgent dynamics.

His work on future conflict and emerging tech has been widely adopted across several professional military education programs, including ones here in Australia.

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excludes any damage the current system is doing.

You wrote a book in 2019, De-globalisation and International Security, and I got to read some bits of it online, which was wonderful.

And it made me think about Australia as a middle power and what sort of de-globalisation kind of means for us.

Tom has been board chairman of the Arms Control Association since 2017.

He previously was the acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.

and served for 36 years as a member of the US Foreign Service, including as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Non-Preparation from 2011 to 2017.

And my second distinguished guest is Ambassador Alexander Kement.

Alexander is a senior member of the European Leadership Network and an Austrian career diplomat who has served in numerous senior roles focused on disarmament and non-preparation.

And I think that the debate at the review conference accurately reflected the reality in the world that these five states are more interested in blaming each other, scoring public points, than in actually advancing the cause of disarmament.

It doesn't mean the treaty is broken or irrelevant.

It continues to be the treaty that has contributed more to international security than any other treaty I could name.

So it's kind of, you know, while we've been watching the Middle East, China has been really intensifying, sustaining their operations is what the piece talks about.

Also, I think by the time we actually edit this podcast, it will have happened, but I have a Lowy debate at the National Press Club speaking with Sam Roggeveen, who is the Director of International Security at Lowy, and we're debating whether AUKUS enhances Australia's security.

So it's really going to be a conversation around maritime versus continental strategy, around alliances, the relationship within alliances, US posture in Australia, and and those elements but through the lens of AUKUS.

And it's kind of a follow-up to a debate we did 12 months ago, which is really a debate about continental versus maritime strategy, of course.

Um, more importantly, I, I would point out, um, uh, there have been some reactions, uh, to the book.

Um, there was an exchange in a journal called International Security, which is a very prominent journal in the field, and obviously I've received lots of correspondence But no one has raised a possible extra case.

Uh, the five cases that I have, um, which are Bismarck, the rapprochement, the Anglo-American rapprochement, uh, the, uh, f- French, German, and Japanese, uh, US cases in the '20s, and the end of the Cold War.

Um, no one has added to those five cases.