The interrogation of six journalists in Malaysia highlights a creeping ant-free press bent across the region - and Australia is not immune. Is Russia paying a bounty for the deaths of coalition troops? And how a wildly popular video app became a geo-political flashpoint. Guests on this edition of A Foreign Affair included Amanda Hodge, South East Asian correspondent for The Australian; Stephen Loosely, senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre; and Katherine Mansted, Senior Adviser for Public Policy at ANU’s National Security College.