Soft Power, China, and Global Strategy w/Daniel Runde

Senior foreign policy strategist Daniel Runde joins Andrew Langer on the Federal Newswire Lunch Hour to break down America’s global strategy in an era of rising Chinese influence. Drawing from his book The American Imperative, Runde explains how soft power, development policy, defense burden-sharing, and economic statecraft shape U.S. competition with China across the developing world. The conversation spans Arctic and Greenland security, Ukraine and Russia, Venezuela’s collapse, higher education as geopolitical leverage, and why non-military power may decide the next phase of global leadership. A direct, unscripted discussion on where U.S. foreign policy is heading—and what’s at stake.

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