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What America and China Fear Most About AI: A Conversation with Kyle Chan and Helen Toner
October 1, 2026 · 54 minOver the course of just a few months, artificial intelligence has become one of the most central issues, and one of the most fraught issues, in the relationship between the United States and China. Policymakers in Washington and in Beijing…
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Caught in the Middle of the Iran War: A Conversation With Anwar Gargash
September 24, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minBy all accounts, Iran’s neighbors, even those long at odds with the Islamic Republic, opposed the U.S.-Israeli war that began on February 28. Yet it is those Middle Eastern states that have paid some of the highest costs in the months…
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How to Understand the New Age of War: A Conversation With Lawrence D. Freedman
September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minBy some measures, there is more war in the world today than at any point since World War II. Today’s wars have brought a level of destruction, disruption, and global risk that would have been hard to imagine not long ago, often in places…
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The Iran Shock Is Not Over: A Conversation With Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan
September 10, 2026 · 54 minWhen Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz six months ago, the world seemed on the verge of an energy crisis that would upend economies, governments, and much else. It was, as Meghan O’Sullivan and Jason Bordoff pointed out in Foreign Affairs…
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What Does China Want? A Conversation With Jessica Chen Weiss
September 3, 2026 · 50 minThere has been no shortage of dizzying shifts in American foreign policy since Donald Trump returned to the White House last year. But perhaps none have been as surprising as the shift on China. In his first term, Trump helped create a…
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Afghanistan After America: A Conversation With Laurel Miller and Graeme Smith
August 27, 2026 · 1 hr 14 minFive years ago this month, the United States ended its war in Afghanistan. Washington’s exit was chaotic; as Taliban forces swept through the country and the U.S.-backed government collapsed, officials scrambled to evacuate tens of…
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Is a Post-American World Inevitable? A Conversation With Kurt Campbell, Rush Doshi, and Mark Leonard
August 20, 2026 · 1 hr 17 minEver since Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, a big question has loomed over any discussion of global politics: How much of the change he has brought to U.S. foreign policy, and to the international system, will endure…
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From the Archive: How the Past Shadows China's Future: A Conversation With Odd Arne Westad
August 13, 2026 · 60 minAt the end of last year, editor Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with the historian Odd Arne Westad about China’s complicated past and how that history shapes the way Chinese leaders see their country’s place in the world today. Policymakers and…