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Hey, Carthick, how you doing?

Good, thanks. How are you doing, Connor?

I'm good. Why don't I go ahead and introduce us, get him started. I am Connor Eccles. I'm the managing editor of the Non Zero Newsletter, and I am also the host, of course, of this show, Non Zero World.

And I'm very excited to be joined today to talk about all things related to Trump Tariffs with

Karthik Shankaran, who is a, I believe you're a senior

fellow at the Quincy Institute, senior fellow in like geo-economics. Is that the, is that what it is?

Yeah, yeah. Perfect. In the Global South program. It's several nested titles. Yeah,

beautiful. Nesting doll titles are good.

And then, yeah, I believe you also have a substack.

Maybe we should plug at the top where you write about some issues related to global issues.

What's the name of that again?

It's called the homegrown globalist, GROAN, because I'm notorious for execrable puns.

It's kind of mostly in advance right now because a lot of my writing I do now I do on for Responsible Statecraft or or or other media. But it's still

live. There's a there's lots of there's lots of back content actually that is relevant to what we're

going to be talking about

today in case people want to check it out.

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