Four big events that shaped and changed our world.

07/10/2022 1h 0min
Four big events that shaped and changed our world.

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The 2002  Bali bombing. Australian / Indonesian relations then and now. Greg Fealy: Emeritus Professor, Indonesian politics, ANU.1972 Nixon goes to China. 50 years ago U.S President Richard Nixon surprises the world by visiting communist China. Evelyn Goh: Professor of Strategic Policy Studies, ANU1962 The Cuban missile crisis. Are there lessons for today as once again a nuclear armed Russia confronts the West. Max Hastings: military historian, journalist and author of Abyss: the Cuban missile crisis 19621947 India is partitioned. What happened when the British left India 75 years ago and how has the legacy of partition shaped geopolitics on the sub-continent. Nsid Hajari: Author of Midnight fires: the deadly legacy of India's partition