Welcome to the World Next Week's special year-end episode, The World Next Year.

I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Jim Lindsay.

And I'm Carly Ann Robbins.

Jim and Carla, we've made it through another turbulent year.

2022 certainly has had its fair share of seismic global events.

In this special episode, we examine what has happened in this past year,

but also discuss some of the leading foreign policy challenges as we go into the Brave New 2023.

Joining us for this special episode is Carla Ann Robbins.

Carla is a senior fellow here at the Council on Foreign Relations.

And longtime listeners of the podcast will, of course, recall Carla and her insights as she has guest co-hosted previous episodes and previous special episodes.

Carla, it's always great to have you back on the show.

Thanks for inviting me. Carla, let's start with U. you back on the show. Thanks for inviting me.

Carla, let's start with U.S.-China relations. Most recently, President Biden and President Xi

met on the sidelines of the G20 summit. They both agreed that while the United States and China

will compete economically, their country's relationship will not veer into conflict.

What events from this past year led us to this point, Carla?

Well, Jim, this has been a pretty tense year between the U.S. and China, and while it's always

good to see world leaders, especially those with nuclear weapons sitting down at a table

together, despite what they said next year is likely to be just as tense,

Biden had comparatively soothing words after that summit as well as she did.

But in its long-awaited national defense strategy,

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