Each week, Foreign Policy Live will feature a substantive conversation on world affairs. Host and FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal will be joined by leading fore...
At a White House press briefing on Tuesday, the Trump administration maintained that it would impose a 25 percent tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada on Feb. 1. This comes after announcing a 10 percent duty on China earlier in the week. Trade and capital expert Brad Setser is skeptical that it will follow through, though, saying that the economic ramifications of tariffs at that scale would be a “ pretty bloody big shock.” Setser sits down with host Ravi Agrawal to share more.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Aaron L. Friedberg: Tariffs Are a Scalpel, Not a Hammer
Wendy Cutler: How Trump Could Strike a Trade Deal With China
Keith Johnson: How to Read Trump’s Day-One Trade Actions
Scott Kennedy: Markets Are Underpricing the Possibility of a U.S.-China Economic War
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FP at Davos: Defending the Cyber Frontlines
FP Live host Ravi Agrawal kicked off a lively discussion on the new frontiers of cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was joined by panelists Samir Saran, president of the Observer Research Foundation; Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare; Andrius Kubilius, European commissioner for defense and space; Joe Kaeser, chairman of Siemens Energy’s supervisory board; and Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Minxin Pei: China’s Secret to Controlling the Internet
Rishi Iyengar: North Korea Does More Cyberspying Than You Think
Dmytro Kuleba: The Fight For Ukraine Is Forging a New World
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Will Trump Actually Deport Millions of Unauthorized Workers?
Immigration was a top issue among voters in the 2024 U.S. election, with President-elect Donald Trump calling for the “largest deportation operation in American history.” And with the incoming administration expected to take action as soon as Trump returns to office, what are the possible ramifications of this policy? Edward Alden, author of the recent book When the World Closed its Doors: The COVID-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders, joins host Ravi Agrawal to share his insights.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Transcript: Will Trump Actually Deport Millions of Undocumented Workers
Edward Alden: When the World Closed Its Doors
Edward Alden: The Great Deportation of 2025
Howard W. French: The U.S. Can’t Afford to Be a Bad Neighbor
Christina Lu: What Trump’s Mass Deportations Would Mean for the U.S. Economy
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10 Conflicts to Watch
FP Live is joined by Comfort Ero, the president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, as she details the 2025 edition of “10 Conflicts to Watch.” From Sudan to Myanmar, Haiti, Ukraine, Iran, and beyond, why is the world facing so many crises at once, and how can it solve them?
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Comfort Ero and Richard Atwood: 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2025
Aaron David Miller and Lauren Morganbesser: Why the Gulf States Might Feature Prominently in Trump’s Foreign Policy
Raphael S. Cohen: China and North Korea Throw U.S. War Plans Out the Window
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Trump World
Pundits love calling President-elect Trump’s leadership “transactional.” But is that true? FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal shares his take in this audio essay from the upcoming print issue of Foreign Policy’s magazine. Take a listen.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Kori Schake: Why Biden’s Foreign Policy Fell Short
Raghuram Rajan: Isolationism Won’t Make Anyone Great Again
Adam Tooze: America Is Locked in a New Class War
Daniel W. Drezner: Does the Madman Theory Actually Work?
Ravi Agrawal: Trump Is Ushering In a More Transactional World
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Each week, Foreign Policy Live will feature a substantive conversation on world affairs. Host and FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal will be joined by leading foreign-policy thinkers and practitioners to analyze a key issue in global politics, from the U.S.-China relationship to conflict and diplomacy. FP Live is your weekly fix for smart thinking about the world.
Foreign Policy magazine subscribers can watch these interviews live and submit questions and suggestions by going to https://foreignpolicy.com/live/.
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