James Lindsay

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Expand Transcript LINDSAY:Welcome to The President's Inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. This week's topic is Confronting the China Challenge. With me to discuss the geopolitical rivalry between China and the United States, its impact on U.S. interests, and how the United States should respond is Dmitri Alperovitch.

2 weeks ago | cfr.org | James Lindsay

Donald Trump campaigned last year promising to impose tariffs at levels the United States had not seen in more than a century. So his rollout this week of a massive tariff package that repudiates eighty years of U.S economic policy falls under the heading “Promises Made, Promises Kept.” That, however, is not necessarily a good thing. Here are five things to know about the Trump tariffs.  1. Trump’s announcement is a major shock to the global economy.

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LINDSAY:Welcome to The President's Inbox, I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boies distinguished senior fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. This week's topic is Germany's rearmament. With me to discuss Germany's ambitious proposals to rebuild its military amid growing doubts on the continent about the U.S. commitment to NATO and European security is Sophia Besch.

1 month ago | newdiscourses.substack.com | James Lindsay |New Discourses

Imagine a sociopolitical movement that divides the population roughly into two essential classes: the oppressive “great power” class and the marginalized minority classes, who are said to be oppressed by the powerful. Now imagine that movement tells the population—and especially those minority classes—the following story. You are oppressed by the great power and its chauvinistic beneficiaries. Our movement sees this and thinks it’s a great injustice.

1 month ago | cfr.org | James Lindsay

Last Friday, I wrote that President Donald Trump’s poll numbers were falling. That was the case especially with assessments of his handling of specific policy issues. The more the public sees of Trump’s policies in practice, the less they seem to like them. Today, Gallup is out with a new poll on Ukraine that shows the same trend.