FP Live: The Ask-Me-Anything Edition

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FP Live fans regularly tune in to watch host Ravi Agrawal grill world leaders and policymakers.

In a special Ask-Me-Anything on FP Live, the tables have turned. Agrawal fields questions from FP subscribers and listeners about everything from the real state of the Chinese economy to what book is on his bedside table.

Watch here or listen to the FP Live podcast to hear from FP’s editor in chief on the most consequential issues around the globe—and what he’s learned from interviewing all those big names.

This episode was recorded before the Wagner group leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was reportedly killed in a plane crash in Russia.

FP’s executive editor, Amelia Lester, asks FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal about how he views the Biden-Modi relationship.

Watch FP Live host Ravi Agrawal answer a question from an FP Live listener about U.S. trade policies vis-à-vis China.

Does Agrawal believe that generative artificial intelligence and deepfakes will constitute a significant risk for democracies? Watch to see his answer to FP Live listener questions.

Ever wonder what it was like for a TV reporter and broadcast producer to transition to working as the editor in chief of a magazine? Watch to learn more about Agrawal’s journalism career.

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Ravi Agrawal

Editor in chief, Foreign Policy

Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of Foreign Policy, the host of FP Live, and a regular world affairs analyst on TV and radio. Before joining FP in 2018, Agrawal worked at CNN for more than a decade in full-time roles spanning three continents, including as the network’s New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent. He is the author of India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy.

Amelia Lester

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Amelia Lester

Executive editor, Foreign Policy

Amelia Lester is the executive editor at Foreign Policy. She has worked as a journalist on three continents, most recently reporting in Japan for publications including the Economist, the New York Times, and the New York Review of Books. Previously, she was the editor in chief of the weekend magazine of the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age newspapers and, before that, managing editor and an executive editor at the New Yorker. Lester lives in Washington, D.C., and is a graduate of Harvard University.

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After the global financial crisis and then the COVID-19 pandemic, nations are turning inward; many are investing in industrial policies, near-shoring, and economic independence instead of integration and free trade. Should the world reconsider the case for globalization? Join FP’s Ravi Agrawal for a conversation with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director-General of the World Trade Organization.

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On Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping will make his first trip to Europe since 2019. Xi’s visit comes on the heels of two U.S. diplomatic missions to China, from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. FP’s Ravi Agrawal will ask Evan Medeiros how one should read the recent surge in engagement.

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With food, fuel, and medicine all in short supply, who is responsible for providing aid to the millions of displaced Gazans? FP’s Ravi Agrawal sat down with two experts on the humanitarian emergency in Gaza: Sari Bashi, the program director of Human Rights Watch, and Shira Efron, Israel Policy Forum’s research director.

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