Great Power Podcast

In this episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST, host Michael Sobolik speaks with Josh Rogin, Washington Post foreign policy columnist and CNN political analyst, about the tectonic shifts in America's China policy, how Republicans and Democrats are engaging these shifting dynamics, and what the future of US-China relations could look like.

Guest Biography

Josh Rogin is a Washington Post foreign-policy columnist and CNN political analyst. He has reported for Bloomberg View, the Daily Beast, Foreign Policy, Congressional Quarterly, Federal Computer Week, and Japan's Asahi Shimbun. He lives in Washington, DC.

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In this episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST, host Michael Sobolik speaks with Ilan Berman, Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy  Council, about America's and China's competing interests in the Middle East, the fallout of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, and how the  broader region views the burgeoning competition between Washington and Beijing.

Guest Biography

Ilan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council  in Washington, DC. An expert on regional security in the Middle East,  Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he has consulted for the U.S.  Central Intelligence Agency as well as the U.S. Departments of State and  Defense, and has also provided assistance on foreign policy and  national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and  congressional offices. He has been called one of America's "leading  experts on the Middle East and Iran" by CNN. Mr. Berman is a member of  the Associated Faculty at Missouri State University's Department of Defense and Strategic Studies. A frequent writer and commentator, he has  written for the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Washington Post and USA Today, among many other publications. He has also edited and published multiple books.

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In this episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST, host Michael Sobolik speaks with U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) about the Biden administration's foreign policy with China (as well as Russia, Iran, and  Afghanistan), and what a "peace through strength" approach would look like instead.

Guest Biography

Ted  Cruz has served as the junior United States senator for Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008. He is currently a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and was previously on the Senate Armed  Services Committee.

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In this episode of AFPC's GREAT POWER PODCAST,  host Michael Sobolik speaks with Michael Schuman, nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub, about the evolution of China's strategic culture throughout its dynastic era - and how it shapes the Chinese Communist Party's practice of foreign policy today.

Guest biography

Michael  Schuman the author of "Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of  the World." He is also a contributor to The Atlantic and a columnist for  Bloomberg Opinion, and, most recently, a nonresident senior fellow at  the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub. Previously, he was a correspondent for TIME magazine and The Wall Street Journal.

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In this episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST, host AFPC fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies Michael Sobolik speaks with Russell Hsiao, Executive Director of the Global Taiwan Institute, about the history of America's complex relationship with Taiwan, China's ambitions to conquer the island, and the political fate of Taiwan in the coming years.

Guest Biography

Russell  Hsiao is the executive director of GTI, senior fellow at The Jamestown  Foundation, and adjunct fellow at Pacific Forum. He previously served as  a senior research fellow at The Project 2049 Institute and national  security fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Prior to  those positions he was the editor of China Brief at The Jamestown  Foundation from October 2007- to July 2011 and a special associate in  the International Cooperation Department at the Taiwan Foundation for  Democracy. While in law school, he clerked within the Office of the  Chairman at the Federal Communications Commission and the Interagency  Trade Enforcement Center at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.  Mr. Hsiao received his J.D. and certificate from the Law and Technology  Institute at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of  Law where he served as the editor-in-chief of the Catholic University’s  Journal of Law and Technology. He received a B.A. in international  studies from the American University’s School of International Service  and the University Honors Program.

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In this inaugural episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST, host Michael Sobolik speaks with Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian of Axios about the way Washington thinks about competition with  Beijing, how China views the contest, and where the bilateral  relationship is heading in the next few years.

Guest Biography:

Bethany  Allen-Ebrahimian is the China reporter at Axios. Before joining Axios,  Bethany served as the lead reporter for the International Consortium of  Investigative Journalists' China Cables project, a major leak of  classified Chinese government documents revealing the inner workings of  mass internment camps in Xinjiang. Previously, Bethany was an editor and  contributing reporter at Foreign Policy magazine and a national  security reporter at The Daily Beast. Bethany spent four years in China  and is now based in Washington, DC.

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