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Monocle 24: The Globalist
"charles hacker" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"Me in the studio is Charles hacker, senior partner at control risks. Charles good morning to you. Good morning, Georgina. I am very much a woman in my prime, alongside Nikki Haley, and Don Lennon has just understood that it's a demographic you don't annoy lightly. And long May that prime last and endured Regina. There has nothing to do with being in your 20s and 30s with being in your prime. And in that case, I will join you hopefully as a man in his prime. So, I mean, it is extraordinary, though, that this has blown up to that extent. How is the media reaction? Not reacting not only to lemon, but of course, to Carson, it's huge. It's a big, big story. There is nothing the American media likes more than a good juicy American media story. And so we're going to start with The New York Times who is moving forward a little bit from Chris's summary of the news that happened and venturing into a bit of analysis with a headline that says, what Tucker Carlson leaves behind as he has shown the door, and as Chris pointed out, Tucker Carlson's television show at 8 o'clock at night was the nation's most popular television show on cable. It had more than three million viewers at its peak. And so a few things happen. Tucker Carlson and all of Fox News was concerned that if they didn't promote the stolen election theory that they would lose viewers, and that they would lose viewers to shows like newsmax and to OANN, one American news network, and those two programs now are openly trolling Fox, saying, come watch us now. You don't have Tucker anymore, but you can get the news you like from us. Tucker Carlson is also actively being trolled by Russia today, RT, which used his clips, clips from his show to show that U.S. support for the Warren Ukraine was waning, and that was one of the things that Tucker Carlson railed against in his news show. So there are a couple of things. Fox has a challenge on how to fill this vacuum in its evening lineup. And then it also has a challenge in what to do about the narratives that were in that lineup. This isn't just about eyeballs. It's not just about advertisers which were leaving, by the way. It's about this arc that this narrative arc that Tucker Carlson created, and the times has openly asking, where does all this go? Where do you think it goes? Well, Fox News continues to face a series of very serious lawsuits. Not just more from dominion, but from other election technology providers. There is a sexual harassment case against Fox News from a producer on Tucker Carlson's show. I think it would be reasonable to expect that in certain parts of the network, fox is going to have to tread more carefully. That said, there are anchors on Fox News who were far more aggressive in their discussion of the stolen election than Tucker Carlson and that includes jeanine pirro and Maria bartiromo and both of them are still on Fox News. Let's pick up on another story that's making the headlines today. This is the Sudanese armed forces and the rapid support forces, agreeing to a ceasefire. That's according to Anthony blinken reported in The Guardian. That's right, we've got a headline in The Guardian that says Sudanese armed forces and rapid support forces agree ceasefire says blinken. And what this refers to is a potential three day ceasefire between the two armed branches in Sudan that are currently waging something that is rapidly approaching all out Civil War in the country. These fires have happened before. They have not been hugely durable. The challenge that this potential pause in military activity poses is for countries like the UK to get in there now and to evacuate their citizens. The UK successfully evacuated its embassy employees, but there are hundreds and hundreds of British citizens on the ground and foreign citizens from all over the world. This is their window of opportunity to get out of the country. Now let's have a look at Russia. The U.S. has proposed a more sanctions on Russia, tell us what the FT has on this. That's right. At the top of the news you had the piece about the Security Council in the UN in the run up to the G 7 meeting in Hiroshima next month, and that's the meeting of the world's largest economies that usually ends with some sort of great global statement on policy the U.S. wants that statement to be a global ban on exports to Russia. And that means the G 7 nations essentially stop sending anything to Russia and with exceptions perhaps for medications and some food products. And the G 7 is actually pushing back, saying, you know, this is taking things a bit too far. Each of us have sectors that we want to protect relationships that we want to protect and that a global ban on exports is unenforceable. And so what we think is going to come out of this, the FT tells us is that sanctions enforcement of the existing sanctions regimes against Russia will tighten. Let's go now to Tokyo where Ron DeSantis is currently. So Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who I remind you is not a candidate for presidential for the Republican nomination for the presidency in the U.S. or at least not yet. Is allegedly on a business trip to Tokyo and he is drumming up additional economic ties between Florida and Japan. Those two the state and the nation are very important trading partners he would like that relationship to grow. But really, I mean, let's be honest about this. Desantis, it is anticipated, will declare his candidacy for the Republican nomination. And this is a way to show that he is an international diplomat. He has gone to one of the safest U.S. allies in the world, the relationship politically economically and militarily between the United States and Japan could not be any closer. This is very fertile ground for him to try to show his international prowess. The third was interesting to see that one of the things on his agenda is to secure direct flight routes to Japan from Florida, Florida's the largest U.S. state without direct flights to Japan, how extraordinary. That's right. And what desantis did during that meeting is he compared business between Georgia and Japan to Florida and Japan because Atlanta has direct flights to Tokyo and economic trade between the state of Georgia and Japan is higher than in Florida and so presumably what he would want is a nonstop connection either from Miami or from Orlando, which are some of the bigger international airports in Florida. In the hopes that the ability to step on a plane, sit down for 14 hours or so. And then walk off that plane in Tokyo nonstop helps foster greater economic activity. And just finally, this weekend, Biden was asked if he was running again, he said yes. So is it looking like a rerun of Biden versus Trump? We've got a very long way to go before all of this settles out. By the way, bride, Biden, may face a primary challenge from democratic congressman Joe Kennedy. I think I've got that right. He might be senator no, I think he's a congressman. May primary Biden that effort is expected to fail. Desantis is currently lagging Trump significantly impulsive potential Republican primary voters. At this early, early, early point, it looks like it's Trump versus Biden all over again. Well, buckle up. And enjoy the ride. Charles hecker, thank you very much indeed. Now here's what else we're keeping an eye on today.
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"charles hacker" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"Welcome back you're listening to the globalist on harmonical radio. We continue now with today's newspapers. Joining us in the studio, Charles hacker, senior partner at control risks, his currently on book leave, which is glorious a love at the fact that you've been given a year to write a book Charles. Welcome. Welcome to Monaco radio. It's a great pleasure to be here. Thank you. What do you think of our new home on you sound? I think it's wonderful I was listening to it before I came into the studio and it sounds great. Glad to hear it, that was the right answer. What for you spotted? So we're going to start as you indicated at the very top of the broadcast. We're going to start with a story in the times the times of London, which says Finland election result Santa Marin concedes defeat. And there are several interesting things perhaps Marcus has something to say about this as well. Let's see. But there are several interesting things about this election in Finland. And that is that it was incredibly close. Among the top three vote getting parties, it was less than 1% that separated all of them. The problem for Santa Marin, though, was while her party itself actually gained votes in the election. It looks like she's not going to be able to make a coalition because her coalition partners in her government suffered reasonably significant setbacks. And so Finland will now be building a right wing government going forward. And we've now seen another prominent female national leader leaving the stage. What do you think that does for Finland's image internationally? Now about Santa Maria, most likely won't be our next prime minister. Well, so it is really interesting that she suffered this election defeat after one of the most significant transformations in Finnish history, and that is that she was the prime minister that bought that brought Finland into NATO. And this was a complete about face in Finnish public opinion, brought about by the war in Ukraine. And Santa Marin became an internationally prominent leader as a result of her stewardship of the country into NATO, and it's over. One thing I would want to ask is to have such a closely divided country at the moment. I mean, Marcus, I'll ask you this. I mean, how normal is that for Finnish politics? To look at the situation and how these power ballads is changing. What do you mean? Well, I think it's expected obviously feeling has been hit by the cost of leaving crisis and is often the prime minister and prime minister's party who are facing the blame for that. So he's understandable that that Santa marine was in a very difficult position already when she was going to this election. And also the right wing populist Finn Sparta has been an increasingly strong voice in Finnish politics, which means that, and obviously during these times, when you look at the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, all those have been boosting their popularity as well when they talk about that we need strong leaders and we need to focus on only the essential things. One thing the fear inspired is that just a couple of weeks ago, he said they thought that culture in Finland should be considered a luxury, and that is something that's obviously very divisive. Many people were outraged by that. But that's also something that may well appeal to the wider public. You know, I think we were reminded of another really important lesson. Political lesson as a result of this election. And that is that all politics are domestic. Santa Marin was a prominent international prime minister, part of this generation of prominent female leaders, including Jacinda Ardern, Angela Merkel, as was, and Nicholas sturgeon just until up until a couple of days ago. But it was domestic politics that played the decisive role in her defeat. The Finnish budget was deep in the red and the national debt had soared and financially and fiscally conservative fins pushed her out of office. I think it's also just a load that is also important obviously to remember that the right wing populist Finn's party was in the biggest winner, so it's the center right national college and coco most party that's going to be leading this discussion from now on. I mean, briefly, just let's talk about the timings of all this. Finland's been in the newspapers in the last week or so because of the fact that it's just about to join NATO. I mean, when you have clearly some huge moments in Finnish history here, just happening within the space of a few weeks. And what does that do to a country check? Yeah, and so that's interesting. I mean, what you have to think about here is the stability and the resilience of political institutions. And so what you think is that even though they are changing the head of state or the head of the government at a fairly critical time, Finland is among the world's most stable, most transparent and most resilient democracies, and even while you're sort of changing chairs at a fairly critical moment, that shouldn't really disrupt what's happening right now. Also, the happiest day sending the world as you can probably see when you're working with me, let's continue with today's edition of the Financial Times now Charles, what have you spotted? That's right. There's a very prominent headline in today's Financial Times that says oil price surge after OPEC plus nations make surprise output cut. And what the Financial Times tells us basically is that oil prices were tanking and that's as a result of pardon the pun. That was as a result of fears over recession with the U.S. banking crisis. The U.S. banking crisis is rapidly becoming yesterday's news. But Saudi Arabia and all of the oil producing nations that caucus with it inside and outside OPEC said, you know what? We fancy pushing the prices up a bit. And so they've decided to cut back on how much oil they produce. This is important for a couple of reasons. Reason number one is that U.S. president Joe Biden had been saying, please don't do this. And reason number two is that for countries around the world whose economies are a little bit fragile at the moment, an upcoming spike in oil prices is the last thing they need. Indeed, the FT is covering this in quite depth talking about the fact that The White House and in fact so many other countries at the moment are trying to cut inflation. Well, slow the rise of inflation dare I say it. And that the FT is suggesting that Riyadh was cross with the fact that last week the United States ruled out new crude purchases to replenish its stockpile that had been drained last year because The White House was trying to tame inflation. And this is just not necessarily a personal job, or rather it is. It's a very particular peculiar drive against the United States. Could you explain it for it? Yeah, there is very little love lost between Saudi Arabia and the United States.