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The Investment Hour: a new arms race?

Escalating geopolitical tension has come at a time when Covid-struck Western governments can least afford to fund heavy military spending. We discuss how the defence sector is poised in this tricky balancing act.
August 6, 2020

Coronavirus has intensified the growing animosity between the world’s two great superpowers, China and the US, and worries are mounting that the confrontational rhetoric may at some point turn a cold war into a hot one. But the virus has also stretched Western economies to their limits and cast into doubt just how they can fund the cost of the new arms race that may just be starting.

On this week’s Investment Hour, Megan Boxall and John Hughman are joined by the IC’s defence correspondent Nilushi Karunaratne and industrial correspondent Alex Janiaud to discuss the outlook for the defence sector and what this means for investors.