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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 the origins and implications of the major and seemingly ongoing leak of highly classified U.S. intelligence documents on the dark web. Why did this happen? What are the consequences for America\\u2019s allies? Friday Focus wraps up with a discussion of the blowback over French President Emmanuel Macron\\u2019s recent visit to China. What exactly are NATO members, the U.S. and fellow European countries so angry about? Is China making more headway than we realize in paring away Europe\\u2019s major economies from the U.S.-led effort to back Ukraine\\u2019s war against Russian aggression?

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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.

More information at www.munkdebates.com.