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Trump 2.0 and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman)
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Trump 2.0 and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman)

0:00 Tom’s Pulitzer-Prize hat trick
1:03 Why Beijing is relatively calm about Trump’s reelection
9:33 China hawkism in the AI community
15:24 What’s Trump’s logic re Greenland and Panama?
22:44 On Israel-Palestine, is a two-state solution still possible?
31:06 How a stable ceasefire in Gaza could transform Israeli politics
36:17 Why Trump may be better than Biden on Israel-Palestine
43:46 Bob and Tom debate a possible strike on Iran
52:42 Prospects for peace in Ukraine under Trump
55:24 How America is making a Chinese invasion of Taiwan more likely

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Thomas Friedman (The New York Times). Recorded January 21, 2025.

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