474 | David E. Sanger: New Cold Wars - China & Russia Against America the West

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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David E. Sanger, White House & National Security Correspondent for the New York Times and author of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West, joins The Realignment. Marshall and David discuss how the U.S. found itself in a volatile, nuclear-powered rivalry with Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia, the economic, political, military, and technological aspects of the contest for supremacy, and whether the U.S. is up to the task.

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0:00.0	Marsha here, welcome back to the realignment.
0:08.2	Continuing this week's theme of focusing on U.S. foreign and national security policy.
0:13.2	We are following up Tuesday's episode
0:15.4	with Diemech Operovich that covered
0:17.4	the possibility of invasion of Taiwan
0:19.9	with an episode with the New York Times's
0:22.0	David E. Sanger discuss his new book, New Cold Wars.
0:25.6	New Cold Wars is the best book I've read in the past few years on this broad subject of what
0:30.8	the 21st century looks like from a geopolitical perspective.
0:34.0	He goes through every single part of the globe, Europe, the Middle East,
0:38.9	they know Pacific, and focuses on how these challenges both relate to America's foreign policy, but how it's actually
0:44.4	going to change the domestic political reality economically and otherwise in this country itself.
0:50.6	It's hard to kind of merge the reporting perspective with the deep ideas
0:53.9	analytical perspective but David does an amazing job and I just got so much from this
0:57.6	book that I cannot recommend enough. Hope you all enjoy this conversation.
1:01.6	Huge thank you to the Foundation for
1:03.6	American Innovation for supporting the work on this podcast.
1:07.0	David Sanger, welcome to the realignment.
1:12.0	Great to be with you, Marshall.
1:13.8	We were joking before the episode.
1:15.4	There have been a bunch of contributions
1:17.4	to this state of US foreign policy inside the baseball,
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