In this episode, Senators Christopher Coons and Pete Ricketts—members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations—discuss the role of Congress in formulating, resourcing, and creating the institutional basis for China policy.

Background Reading:

• This article outlines CFR President Michael Froman’s take on artificial intelligence competition between the United States and China

Host: Rush Doshi, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and Director of the China Strategy Initiative, CFR; Cochair, Washington China Forum

Guests: Christopher A. Coons, U.S. Senator from Delaware (D)

Pete Ricketts, U.S. Senator from Nebraska (R)

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CFR’s World Economic Update highlights the quarter’s most important and emerging trends. This episode covers changes in the global marketplace, with a special emphasis on current economic events and their implications for U.S. policy.

Host: Sebastian Mallaby, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, CFR

Guests: Jan Hatzius, Chief Economist and Head of Global Investment Research, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Karen Karniol-Tambour, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Bridgewater Associates, LP

Natasha Sarin, Professor of Law, Yale Law School

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In this episode, experts discuss the United States’ renewed interest in Greenland—which the Trump administration argues is vital to U.S. national security—and what it means for Arctic security, the NATO alliance, and great power competition.

Background Reading:

• This article unpacks Trump’s increasingly assertive push to bring Greenland under U.S. control and what that means for the NATO alliance and the Arctic.

Host: David E. Sanger, White House and National Security Correspondent, New York Times; CFR Member

Guests: Heather A. Conley, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Foreign and Defense Policy; Former President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States; CFR Member

Rebecca Pincus, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute; Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security, German Marshall Fund of the United States; Former Director, Polar Institute, Wilson Center

Geoffrey Pyatt, Senior Managing Director, McLarty Associates; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources and U.S. Ambassador to Greece and Ukraine

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