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

This is FP Live. Welcome to the show. It has been a busy,

newsy couple of weeks in the race for the White House. All of a sudden, there is immense energy behind

Kamala Harris as the new presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. With Joe Biden now

officially a lame duck president, change is in the air. But here's one thing that has not changed.

There is still a reasonable chance, maybe a more than even chance, that Donald Trump will be

the next president of the United States. And so it remains very much

worth trying to figure out what his foreign policy might look like. Now, Trump says a lot of things,

and who knows if he will actually do as he says? It's hard to find the signal in the noise of his

often scattergun pronouncements. It's a guessing game.

But I thought it would be useful today to speak to someone whose views on Ukraine and China

have really made a mark in Washington, and especially in Trump's orbit. Over the last year or so,

a chorus of Republican lawmakers have been making the point that America

can't deal with too many crises at once and should focus on China instead of Russia.

Just listen here to the GOP's vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance on China.

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