The Trialogue

By Peter Slezkine

Peter Slezkine, the Director of the USA-Russia-China Trialogue project at the Stimson Center, hosts a series of conversations with experts and ex-officials from the United States, Russia, China and be... more

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July 25, 2025Xiang Lanxin: Is Trump Good for China?
Xiang Lanxin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center, joins us to discuss Trumpian “kayfabe,” the possibility of a grand bargain over Taiwan, and the US-Russia-China “grand strategic triangle,” among other subjects.
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*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
Time Stamps:
01:27 China’s optimistic view of Trump 2
03:26 The promise of Trump 1
06:25 Danger during the Biden years
12:06 Trumpism as WWE
14:42 Trade negotiations
17:03 Grand bargain over Taiwan
23:52 Trump’s threat of 100% “secondary tariffs”
25:31 Iran-Israel
27:25 The US-Russia-China “grand strategic triangle”
31:15 China-EU relations
44:33 Modern-day McCarthyism
48:17 China doesn’t want to rule the world
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51min
July 18, 2025Sunjoy Joshi: The View from India
Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman of India’s Observer Research Foundation, joins us to discuss Indian philosophy, subtleties of the subcontinent, and India’s relations with the US, China, and Russia.
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*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
Time Stamps:
01:29 What is the Observer Research Foundation?
05:21 Joshi’s government service
05:40 India’s vision of the world
11:50 The subcontinent
22:41 India-China
27:48 India-USA
43:57 India-Russia
52:57 BRICS
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58min
July 11, 2025Curtis Yarvin: The Empire of Love (Part 1)
Curtis Yarvin joins us to discuss the Anglo-American “empire of love,” the bohemian libertines of the ancien regime, Putin’s relative weakness, Xi’s advantages over Mamdani, and populism’s last chance.
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*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
Time Stamps:
00:55 Alt-right? New Right? Modern Right?
02:36 Brief biography
06:26 From Westphalian order to Empire of Love
09:22 The tragedy of the French Revolution
11:04 Liberalism as an instrument of Anglo empire
17:55 Yarvin’s communist grandparents
20:51 Rebooting the US
23:00 The problem with populism
31:43 The potential strength of monarchy
34:41 Authority, popularity and prestige
40:30 The American Revolution is no longer sacred
43:08 Populism has one shot
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46min
June 20, 2025Samuel Charap: Russia Policy in Retrospect
Samuel Charap, Distinguished Chair in Russia and Eurasia Policy at RAND, joins us to discuss US policy toward Russia since 2008, the war in Ukraine, and the prospects of a settlement.
*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
Time Stamps:
00:40 How did you get interested in Russia?
01:59 US-Russia relations since 2008
11:05 EU-Russia relations
15:41 The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
18:32 The Biden administration’s Ukraine policy
25:27 Should we have tried to negotiate sooner?
27:21 Has Trump made a deal more likely?
30:01 Is there a window for a deal in the fall?
33:16 How should negotiations be structured?
37:42 How far apart are US and Russian positions?
40:44 How to best combine carrots and sticks
44:04 Prospects of US-Russia normalization
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48min
May 30, 2025Maksim Suchkov: What Does Russia Want?
Maksim Suchkov, Director of the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University in Moscow, joins us to discuss direct Russia-Ukraine talks, US-Russia relations, and Russia’s own “revolution of common sense”.
*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
Time Stamps:
01:08 Evaluate the Russia-Ukraine talks and the Trump-Putin phone call
03:17 Why does Russia oppose an immediate ceasefire?
08:08 What are Russia’s core objectives?
10:54 What kind of military caps does the Kremlin want to put on Kyiv?
13:56 Three scenarios for US policy
19:43 Russian and Chinese perspectives on Europe
23:05 Russia as a conservative “civilization-state”
26:00 A positive US-Russia bilateral agenda
35:27 How long will the Trump movement last?
42:40 Ukraine v US-Russia normalization
45:51 What kind of Europe does Russia want?
51:46 Predictions for the summer
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56min
May 16, 2025Emma Ashford: Where do American interests end?
What is a foreign policy of restraint? Are the Anglosphere and Western Hemisphere key to American interests? Will the transatlantic alliance endure? Do Russia or China pose substantial threats to the United States?
Time Stamps:
01:38 What is the restraint movement in US foreign policy?
06:28 Is military overextension a product of liberal internationalism?
12:35 Restraint as a function of generational turnover
14:39 What do restrainers want in positive terms?
16:49 Progressive and nationalist visions of restraint
19:27 What is the influence of your Scottish origins?
20:42 A comparison of the British and American empires
23:10 The Soviet and Russian threat?
26:52 Advancing the US national interest as a Scot
29:06 The Anglosphere
33:08 A hemispheric foreign policy
36:46 Europe in or out?
40:44 Ukraine
54:42 China
1:02:12 Multipolarity
*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
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1h 10min
May 09, 2025Da Wei: Will the US and China Decouple or Rebalance?
Da Wei, Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, joins us to discuss tariffs, the prospects of a trade deal, Russia’s global role, and the coming multipolar order.
Time Stamps:
00:53 Was China prepared for Trump’s tariffs?
02:55 Does Washington want to decouple from China or rebalance trade?
08:49 Is the US improvising or following a plan?
11:57 What can China do to influence US policy?
15:49 Can China invest in the US?
20:46 Increasing domestic consumption in China
30:25 Can trade and Taiwan be linked?
35:20 Russia’s position in the world
43:26 What will multipolarity look like?
*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
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57min
April 25, 2025Robert Agee: An American Businessman in Moscow
Robert Agee, President of AmCham Russia, joins us to discuss American business in Russia since the 90s, who left and how after the start of the war in Ukraine, who suffered and benefited from Western sanctions, and the outlook for American (and Chinese) business in Russia going forward.
Time Stamps:
00:45 What is AmCham?
02:29 How did you end up at Xerox in Russia in the 90s?
04:58 American business in Russia until 2022
11:09 What businesses left after the start of the war and how?
21:12 Who benefited from the departure of Western companies?
25:11 The Chinese takeover of the Russian automotive sector
29:48 Business under sanctions
35:17 How changes should be made to US sanctions?
40:36 Is the Russian market actually all that enticing?
44:13 Should we let China dominate the Russian market?
*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
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46min
April 18, 2025Dynkin and Voitolovsky: Welcome to Washington
Alexander Dynkin and Feodor Voitolovsky, President and Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences, join us to discuss their return to Washington, the war in Ukraine, and Sino-Russian relations, among other subjects.
Time Stamps:
00:59 Returning to Washington for the first time since 2019
03:28 Will US-Russia relations improve under Trump?
09:39 The possibility of three-way strategic arms control among the US, Russia, and China
11:45 The future of bilateral US-Russia strategic arms control
15:00 The war in Ukraine
19:43 “Denazification” and Russian historical memory
23:18 Russia’s biggest mistake in Ukraine
25:46 Likelihood of future Russia-Ukraine reconciliation
29:57 Humanitarian issues related to a Ukrainian settlement
31:25 History of national borders in the former Russian empire
34:51 Sino-Russian relations
*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
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48min
April 17, 2025 The Trialogue Live: April 8, 2025
This episode is a recording of a live event held online on April 8. Lanxin Xiang, Andrey Kortunov, and Emma Ashford joined me to discuss the state of theUS-Russia-China trilateral relationship.
*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
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1h 20min

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How many episodes does The Trialogue have?

The podcast currently has 32 episodes available.