Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's Editor-in-Chief.

This is FP Live.

Welcome to this show. I'm calling it a show, but really, this one's just me.

I wanted to take a moment to tell you about our new print magazine, which just went out to subscribers. If you're not one yet,

use the code FP Live. That's FP Live, one word, to get a 50% discount on a new

subscription. So, our fall issue. While there are so many big global problems to focus on right now, one story will have an

outsized impact on everything else. I'm talking about America's elections, of course.

Think about it. In the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is gaming out his next

steps with an eye on who might be the next occupant of the White House.

It's a similar situation in the Middle East, where Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has made it

quite clear who he'd favor as America's leader. When it comes to China, there's a fair

bit of bipartisan consistency in Congress, but even there, Xi Jinping is paying close attention

to the United States as he tries to defend his economy from U.S. export controls.

He will keep looking for the ideal moment to take Taiwan, and a lot of that depends on who's in

the White House.

North Korea, South Africa, Venezuela, India, I can't think of a single country whose leaders are not invested in November's electoral results.

Now, almost every day in foreign policy, we game out conflicts and global crises, and we run

policy recommendations on what the

White House should or shouldn't do. We wanted to try something different for this print issue.

We wanted to approach a set of thinkers, mostly non-American, with expertise in diplomacy or a

particular policy area.

And we asked them to write non-partisan letters of advice to the next White House.

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