Episode description

With a new era of great-power competition taking shape on Earth, Katie Stallard speaks to the journalist and author Tim Marshall about his new book The Future of Geography and the next geopolitical battleground: space. They discuss how the Cold War propelled the space race between the US and the Soviet Union in the last century, and why the US, China and Russia are now engaged in a new contest to reach the moon and exploit its natural resources. Plus: why the existing laws concerning space are inadequate, and whether the satellites of the future will be armed. 

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China’s plan for an anti-satellite cyber-weapon found in leaked CIA documents.

Russia and the new language of war.

The world according to Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin.

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