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Russian Setbacks in Ukraine, Truss' Rocky Start, US-China Microchip Wars

Karen DeYoung, Ryan Heath, and Giles Whittell join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
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About This Episode

This week: continued setbacks for Russia in Ukraine within territory Putin claims to have annexed, along with an update on global attitudes on the conflict. We’ll also turn to the UK in the aftermath of the Truss government’s disastrous mini-budget proposal, and what it could portend for the rest of her premiership. Finally, we’ll round out with a discussion on the US and China’s protracted efforts to secure global supply chains for critical microchip components. 

About the Panelists
Associate Editor and Senior National Security Correspondent, The Washington Post
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Karen DeYoung has spent more than three decades at the Washington Post. Prior to her current role, she served as bureau chief in Latin America and London and as correspondent covering the White House, US foreign policy, and the intelligence community.
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Co-Author of Axios AI+, Axios
Ryan Heath
Ryan is co-author of Axios AI+ — examining the ways our world is transformed by tech innovations and the people who regulate them. Ryan moderated the first presidential debate of the 2019 EU election, and between 2015 and 2023 wrote POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook, Davos Playbook and Global Insider newsletters and hosted podcasts. He is former presidential speechwriter and tech spokesperson at the European Commission.
Ryan Heath
World Affairs Editor, Tortoise Media
Giles Whittell is an English author and journalist who has worked for the London Times as a correspondent in LA, Moscow, and Washington. He was the Times' chief leader-writer for three years before joining Tortoise Media in 2018.
CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.
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