Geopolitics, Tech and the Indo-Pacific with James Crabtree

<p>Welcome back for season two of <i>Confluence</i>!<i> </i>On this week’s episode, host Rana Sarkar sits down with James Crabtree, Executive Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies - Asia office to discuss the current geopolitical and geoeconomic moment. Prior to joining the IISS, James was a Singapore-based author and journalist, and an Associate Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. His best-selling 2018 book, <i>The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age</i> was shortlisted for the FT / McKinsey book of the year. Prior to academia, James worked for the Financial Times, most recently as Mumbai bureau chief, and has written for a wide range of global publications. He also worked as a senior policy adviser in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair. Crabtree recently hosted the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, a conference of heightened importance in this critical time in the Indo-Pacific region. In the weeks prior to the conference, we spoke to Crabtree about the wide range of issues facing the Indo-Pacific region including the impact of climate change on our current geopolitical moment; the rise of minilateralism; the evolving posture of the tech sector in the Indo-Pacific; the role of China and how the United States and Canada are engaging in the region.</p><p>LINKS:</p><p><a href="http://jamescrabtree.com/">James Crabtree Website</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/jamescrabtree">James Crabtree Twitter</a></p><p><a href="https://www.iiss.org/events/shangri-la-dialogue/shangri-la-dialogue-2022">The 2022 Shangri-La Dialogue</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/26ebe826-08d7-4966-b104-1a3be1f8ca5c">James Crabtree May 26, 2022 Financial Times essay - “Still Top Gun? What Tom Cruise’s new movie tells us about American Power”</a></p>