FP Live: The Ask-Me-Anything Edition [Video]

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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Heather Boushey defends the administration’s industrial policy approach.

Insider | Ravi Agrawal
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Former CIA analyst Andrea Kendall-Taylor with the big-picture view on Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Insider | Ravi Agrawal
Why Taiwan Has a Lock on the World’s Chip Market

Chris Miller explains why it’s so difficult to make high-end semiconductors—and how a war over Taiwan could induce a global crisis.

Insider | Ravi Agrawal

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