The Trade Challenge, With Edward Alden and Ana Swanson (Election 2024, Episode 3)

The President’s Inbox

Council on Foreign Relations

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the CFR and the Ross Distinguished Visiting Professor at Western Washington University, and Ana Swanson, a trade and international economics journalist at the New York Times, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss opportunities and constraints that the next U.S. president will confront on U.S. trade policy. This episode is the third in a special TPI series on the U.S. 2024 presidential election and is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Mentioned on the Episode Edward Alden, Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy When the World Closed Its Doors: The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders- https://global.oup.com/academic/product/when-the-world-closed-its-doors-9780197697818?cc=us&lang=en& David Autor, Anne Beck, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson, “Help for the Heartland? The Employment and Electoral Effects of the Trump Tariffs in the United States,” National Bureau of Economic Research The U.S. Election and Foreign Policy, CFR.org For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President’s Inbox at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/tpi/trade-challenge-edward-alden-and-ana-swanson-election-2024-episode-3

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0:00.0	Welcome to the President's Inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boy's Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. foreign policy here at the Council on Foreign Relations.
0:14.0	This is the third episode in a special 2004 U.S. election series here on the President's Inbox. From now until Election Day, I will be sitting down with F.S. election series here on the president's inbox. From now until election day, I will be
0:24.2	sitting down with experts to unpack some of the most pressing challenges in the next
0:28.9	president's foreign policy inbox. This week's topic is the trade challenge. With me to discuss how U.S. trade policy has evolved in recent years
0:40.9	in how it might change with a President Kamala Harris or a President Donald Trump
0:45.7	are Edward Alden and Anna Swanson.
0:49.2	Ted is a senior fellow at the Council and the Ross Distinguished Visiting Professor
0:53.5	at Western Washington University.
0:56.7	Ted specializes in U.S. economic competitiveness, trade, and immigration policy.
1:02.1	His writings include the book, Failure to Adjust, How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global
1:07.8	Economy. His newest book, titled When the World Closed Its Doors, the COVID-19 Tragedy in the global economy. His newest book titled When the World closed its doors,
1:12.7	The COVID-19 Tragedy in the Future of Borders, which he co-wrote with Laurie Troutman, will be
1:18.3	published in January. Anna is a reporter for the New York Times. She covers trade,
1:25.5	employment, and markets with a specialization on the Indo-Pacific
1:29.2	region in China in particular. She previously was editor of foreign policy magazine's South Asia
1:36.2	Channel and the editor-in-chief of the China Economic Review based in Shanghai. She lived in China
1:42.8	for eight years and while are co-founded the International
1:46.1	China Journalists Association. She has received numerous awards for her reporting, including an
1:52.7	Edward R. Murrow Award. Ted and Anna, thank you for joining me on the president's inbox.
1:58.2	Thank you. So first question I want to ask you, Anna and Ted,
2:02.1	are either one of you advising either formally or informally the Harris or Trump campaigns?
2:08.8	No. No, I'm not. Okay, so let's dive into the question of U.S. trade policy. I'd like to
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