America Votes: What It Means for Asia

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

As China’s influence grows in Asia and around the world, how will the next U.S. president manage Washington’s most important relationship? And beyond China, how do Donald Trump and Kamala Harris compare in their approach toward other Asian countries? In the fifth and final episode of a special election series, FP’s Ravi Agrawal speaks with Ryan Hass and Lynn Kuok. Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free): Lili Pike: How Does the U.S.-China ‘Cold War’ End? Agathe Demarais: Why China Is Rooting for Trump Derek Grossman: The Once Wobbly Quad Is Here to Stay Sumit Ganguly and Dinsha Mistree: Modi’s Third-Term Foreign Policy Looks the Same Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.3	Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policies Editor-in-Chief.
0:42.7	This is FP Live.
0:46.5	Welcome to the show and to our final episode of our special series, America Votes What It Means for the World.
0:55.0	Every day this week, we have released an episode that explored how the two presidential
0:59.5	candidates, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, might agree or disagree on how to manage a different
1:06.3	part of the world.
1:07.7	And today, we're tackling the vast mass of territory that is Asia.
1:12.9	In many ways, if you set aside the unpredictable wars in the Middle East and Europe,
1:18.1	the primary driver of recent US foreign policy has been competition with China.
1:24.0	If you want to pass a climate change bill, make it about China. If you have a big industrial policy plan, make it about China.
1:31.3	If you want to get the G7 to align on something, make it about China.
1:35.3	And this isn't just hypothetical, this is exactly what has happened in the last four years.
1:40.3	Whether that's right or wrong, it's become an animating principle in Washington with both parties
1:46.3	largely in the same camp. And just as there's agreement on being tough on China, there's also a
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