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Friday Focus provides listeners with a focused, half-hour masterclass on the big issues, events and trends driving the news and current events. The show features Janice Gross Stein, the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and bestselling author, in conversation with Rudyard Griffiths, Chair and moderator of the Munk Debates.\\xa0

The following is a sample of the Munk Debates\\u2019 weekly current affairs podcast, Friday Focus.

On this week\\u2019s edition of the Friday Focus podcast, Janice and Rudyard start the show with a discussion of this week\\u2019s summitry between Putin and Xi. What did we learn about these two autocratic leaders and how they plan to work together to thwart American hegemony? Friday Focus wraps up with a discussion of the growing protests in France over raising the retirement age. Is France on the brink of 1968-style unrest? What do the protests say about the government\\u2019s ability to reform entitlement programs as populations age and deficit spending soars?\\xa0

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This podcast is a project of the Munk Debates, a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to fostering civil and substantive public dialogue.

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