Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

Ryan Bridge: Why's the world so hectic at the moment?
Everyone keeps asking why the world feels so hectic at the moment.
If life were a movie, they'd call it One Battle After Another.
Winston Peters, Judith Collins, and their counterparts in Europe and elsewhere all agree we’re living in the most dangerous era since the World Wars.
But why?
Yes there’s Trump, he’s unpredictable and a bit nuts, but Trump is really just a symptom of a wider problem, which is basically the decline of America.
The last death rattle of a superpower who knows its time is almost up.
China’s military spending grew from one sixth to one third of America’s in the past…
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