The Ask-Me-Anything Edition

Foreign Policy Live

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4.1 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As a special summer edition of Foreign Policy Live, Ravi Agrawal shares the mic with his colleague Amelia Lester and answers audience questions on China’s economic slowdown, the state of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, and more. This episode was recorded before the Wagner group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was reportedly killed in a plane crash in Russia. And while you're here, listeners, we're offering a rare 50 percent discount on a subscription to Foreign Policy for a short time. Go to foreignpolicy.com/subscribe and enter promo code FPLIVE. If you sign up for the annual subscription, you’ll get 50 percent off the entire year. Our usual discounts are much much smaller, so if you've been thinking about subscribing, now is the time. Suggested reading: Howard W. French: Niger’s Coup Is a Turning Point for Africans FP Live Debate: Has China Peaked? Paul Scharre: AI’s Gatekeepers Aren’t Prepared for What’s Coming Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Abby's just woken up. It's 731 and she's forgotten to ring the doctor. There's no point
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0:31.3	Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief.
0:35.1	This is FP Live.
0:43.7	Welcome to the show. It's the height of summer out here on the east coast of the United States. This is about the time Washington, D.C. shuts down for a bit,
0:49.9	which is probably just as well because it's been a busy year and the fall promises to be even busier.
0:56.6	It's been just a few months of us putting out FP live episodes on this feed,
1:01.5	and my producers felt it was time to run an Ask Me Anything episode, or an AMA, as it's known.
1:07.7	Truth be told, I was a little bit queasy about this one, but I ended up having a fun time.
1:13.3	Since I'm the one answering questions this week, the real host of this episode is Amelia Lester,
1:18.8	our amazing executive editor. She runs our news team, edits our biggest essays, and is one of
1:24.8	the best journalists I know. While I'm the one who you will hear most of
1:29.5	in this episode, I often felt like I wanted to hear her take much more than my own. Maybe next time.
1:36.1	Remember, you can stay abreast of everything we're doing on our website, and that is
1:40.2	foreign policy.com slash live. We have some great interviews coming up this fall, but for now,
1:46.1	here is Amelia Lester. Hi, Amelia. Hi, you may recognize me from hosting our reporters
1:54.5	notebook lives. Those are the FP lives where we bring you insights from my news team.
2:00.0	But today, I get to turn the tables on
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