The Diplomatic Cable

Vice President and Managing Director at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Washington, D.C. office, Wendy Cutler joins Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) on this episode of The Diplomatic Cable.

As former Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Cutler worked on a range of U.S. Trade negotiations in the Asia-Pacific region, and was responsible for the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. She was also the chief negotiator to the U.S. –Korea Free Trade Agreement.

This episode centers on the strategic missteps taken by the Trump Administration on trade, the state of play on the issue, and her vision on the essential maneuvering needed to return the U.S. back to its vision of a global, interconnected economy.

Director of the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings Institution, Senior Fellow in the Project on International Order at Brookings Institution, and contributing writer at The Atlantic Thomas Wright joins Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) to discuss the United States' retreat from its leadership standing in the global order, what that means for the G20 summit this week, and how this Administration continues to redefine diplomacy—or lack thereof.  

Ian Bremmer—political scientist, president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media—joins Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) to discuss a new world order. 

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (NY-16) joins Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) to discuss foreign policy priorities for the 116th Congress. 

Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies Dean, and former Special Advisor to President Obama’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Vali Nasr joins Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) to discuss the tectonic shifts in the Middle East since the Arab Spring. 

The bipartisan German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy co-directors Laura Rosenberger and Jamie Fly join Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) to discuss election security and policy prescriptions for countering authoritarian interference in our democracy days before the midterm elections. Laura formerly served as Foreign Policy Advisor on former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Jamie formerly served as Foreign Policy Advisor on U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Harvard University’s Conversations in Diplomacy host Ambassador Nick Burns joins Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) for a special edition episode on the harmful effects of the Presidents’ cuts to U.S. diplomacy and development budgets, and an overall incoherent U.S. foreign policy. This episode will be played jointly on Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Conversations in Diplomacy podcast hosted by Amb. Burns.

Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, who served four separate U.S. Administrations, joins Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) to discuss U.S. foreign policy in disarray under President Trump.

Former United States Ambassador to Mexico and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the United States State Department Roberta Jacobson joins Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) to discuss consequences of the NAFTA renegotiation and general U.S.-Latin America policy.

The House Intelligence Committee’s Top Democrat Adam Schiff (CA-28) joins Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20) to discuss the House Intelligence Committee Majority’s failure to place national security above partisan politics, the series of leads in our instigation that remain untouched, the President’s obstruction of justice and what might a Democratic Majority in the House of Representatives mean for the investigation moving forward.