Antony Blinken on American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent Age

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  I'm Dan Kurtz-Valen, and this is the Foreign Affairs Interview.

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  I think what we're handing over is a strong hand for the next administration to play.

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  It will have to decide how it plays it.

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  In the four years since Joe Biden took office, the geopolitical landscape has radically changed.

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  Russia's invasion of Ukraine brought war back to Europe.

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  Hamas's October 7th assault on Israel sparked a widening conflict in an already chaotic Middle East,

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  and Chinese aggression in the Taiwan Strait has refocused attention on the Indo-Pacific as a possible theater of combat.

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  Through it all, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been at the helm of U.S.

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  foreign policy, shuttling between capitals, negotiating with allies and adversaries,

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  and helping to shape a vision for American engagement with the world,

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  a vision he laid out in a recent essay for Foreign Affairs.

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  Now, on the eve of Donald Trump's return to office,

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  Blinken reflects on the geopolitical challenges facing the United States today and offers lessons from his own tenure for American foreign policy going forward.

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  the November-December issue of foreign affairs.

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  Thanks, Dan.

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  Good to be with you.

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  VSA starts out by noting how contested and complicated the world is today.

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  And so I want to start with your analysis of this pretty challenging to put it mildly moment in the global landscape.

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  I don't imagine that when you started this job almost four years ago,

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  you imagine you'd be contending with major wars in the Middle East and in Europe that you'd see the kinds of provocations we see almost daily from the Chinese and the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea that you'd be hearing.

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