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This week I caught up with Stephanie Baker at Bloomberg. Stephanie has just published her book Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia.

We talked about her time as a foreign correspondent reporting in Russia during the rise of Vladimir Putin, the effectiveness of the sanctions imposed on Russian entities after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and what that tells us about how sanctions might work or not against China in the event of a conflict in the Indo-Pacific.

In Ask Me Anything, Stephanie quizzes Latika about Australia’s support for Ukraine.

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