David Ignatius on a World in Transition: Trump, Xi Jinping, AI & Global Power

David Ignatius is the internationally admired foreign affairs columnist and associate editor for The Washington Post. He joined the paper in 1986, later served as foreign editor, and has written his twice-weekly column since 1998. He is also a popular novelist, writing 11 successful books about the world he covers as a reporter and columnist. He is hard at work on his 12th. Ignatius’s strength as a columnist and novelist is his extraordinary knowledge and access to primary players in espionage and diplomacy around the world who are on the front lines of the global struggle among nations to survive and dominate in peace and war. David Ignatius graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude and studied at King’s College, Cambridge. He has, in a varied and distinguished career, worked as an editor and reporter at The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post and was executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris. Ignatius not only writes novels and a twice-weekly column but also is a commentator for MSNBC, appearing often on Morning Joe. He has written frequently about the Iranian War. This is an important moment in the world of politics and foreign policy as elections are being held in the United States, Israel, and Brazil, wars continue in the Middle East and Ukraine, and everyone is trying to assess the future of AI. We will talk of many things, including President Trump, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Benjamin Netanyahu, wars in Iran and Ukraine, AI, tech leaders, the Trump cabinet, climate, elections, socialism, China, Europe, Greenland, NATO, global intrigue, spying, spies, and spy novels.