By popular demand, here’s our second ask-me-anything episode of 2023. FP’s Amelia Lester turns the tables on regular host Ravi Agrawal and quizzes him about the Israel-Hamas war, the future of Ukraine, how FP makes decisions about its global coverage, and more.
Among the many questions received from FP subscribers and FP Live listeners, Ravi is asked how events in the Middle East might impact U.S. elections, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s agenda for 2024, and whether he remains hopeful about the world despite the doom and gloom of the news cycle. (Hint: He does—and explains why.)
Ravi Agrawal responds to whether the Israel-Hamas war and the Biden administration’s response to it might pose problems for President Joe Biden’s chances of reelection next November.
FP Live host Ravi Agrawal is asked whether Israel will maintain a security presence in Gaza after the current round of hostilities is over or whether it will return to the area to Palestinian control. Watch to hear his response.
Ravi Agrawal is asked to contrast the White House response to the war in Gaza with Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Watch Ravi Agrawal give his take on what Chinese President Xi Jinping’s agenda for 2024 might look like.
Agrawal answers whether he remains hopeful about the world despite the doom and gloom of the news cycle and natural disasters.
Ravi Agrawal explains why U.S. foreign policy is contradictory.
Host of FP Live
Ravi Agrawal
Editor in chief, Foreign Policy
Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of Foreign Policy, the host of FP Live, and a regular world affairs analyst on TV and radio. Before joining FP in 2018, Agrawal worked at CNN for more than a decade in full-time roles spanning three continents, including as the network’s New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent. He is the author of India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy.
Guest host
Amelia Lester
Executive editor, Foreign Policy
Amelia Lester is the executive editor at Foreign Policy. She has worked as a journalist on three continents, most recently reporting in Japan for publications including the Economist, the New York Times, and the New York Review of Books. Previously, she was the editor in chief of the weekend magazine of the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age newspapers and, before that, managing editor and an executive editor at the New Yorker. Lester lives in Washington, D.C., and is a graduate of Harvard University.
