What it's doing is creating a dense web of connections across trade, investment, culture on which we can draw for future challenges and opportunities. Argue the Middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. But I'd also say that great powers can afford for now to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms. (14:20–14:25)
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Asserts that middle powers need to collaborate to avoid being dominated by great powers.
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