Washington's view of ASEAN

Published on Sep 17, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Guy Taylor, National Security Team Leader at The Washington Times, overseeing the paper’s State Department, Pentagon, and intelligence coverage. He has also reported from dozens of countries and seen his work honored by several journalism awards.Prior to joining The Times in 2011, Taylor was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund For Investigative Journalism and he served as an editor at World Politics Review.Taylor spoke with The Diplomat’s Luke Hunt about U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia under President Joe Biden, the re-emergence of the Quad, the debacle in Kabul, and the impact of rapid changes in international diplomacy and the implications for ASEAN and China. Listen here..

Twenty Years after 9/11

Published on Aug 27, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Dan Boylan. American journalist and communications consultant Dan Boylan has worked across the Muslim world over the last two decades as a reporter and then as an advisor to the U.S. State department, the Pentagon, and governments in Iraq and Afghanistan.He spoke with Luke Hunt about 9/11 and the next 20 years which has culminated in an American evacuation of Afghanistan and the return of the Taliban.Listen here..

A Tribunal Winds Down

Published on Aug 22, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Helen Jarvis. Khieu Samphan – the last of Pol Pot’s living henchmen – is slated to appear and deliver an oral defense of the crimes committed between 1975 and 1979.A bench of Cambodian and international judges will then deliberate on the 90-year-old’s appeal against his convictions for genocide and crimes against humanity.Nine days have been reserved for the hearings, following which the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) will start finalizing more than 15 years of legal work.The Diplomat’s Luke Hunt spoke with Helen Jarvis at her home on the banks of the Mekong River, north of Phnom Penh, about the “Herculean” efforts required to establish the tribunal, its successes, and other issues.Listen here..

Myanmar and the Media

Published on Jul 24, 2021 by Luke Hunt

A podcast with Australian journalist Liam Cochrane, a former foreign correspondent for the ABC, who has traveled the Asia-Pacific region filing for television, radio, and digital platforms. As a specialist VJ – a solo video journalist – he has held ABC postings in Thailand and covered Myanmar extensively.Cochrane currently lectures at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne. He spoke with Luke Hunt about colleagues who have been detained by the military junta in Myanmar.Listen here..

A Podcast with Lindsay Murdoch AOM

Published on Jul 24, 2021 by Luke Hunt

Australian correspondent Lindsay Murdoch has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) on this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to journalism after spending most of his five decades in journalism covering upheavals across Southeast Asia.Murdoch began his career working on the Warragul Guardian in southeast Australia in 1968 and joined The Age in Melbourne in 1977 as a police reporter. Starting from the mid-1980s, spent he spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent throughout Asia for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Murdoch is also a veteran of the wars in Iraq, was among the first journalists to reach Banda Aceh, Indonesia after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, and covered the carnage in East Timor in....