The Weekly Leaf
This week, President Biden met with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Commander of U.S. INDOPACOM Adm. Samuel Paparo held a video call with Chinese Commander Gen. Wu Yanan for the first time, SpaceX conducted the first private spacewalk, and the European Central Bank cut interest rates again.
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This Week's Content Highlights
Features from Aspen Strategy Group Members
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Catherine Ashton, Jason Bordoff, Arancha González, Martin Kimani, Mark Malloch-Brown, Danny Quah, Nirupama Rao, and Joseph E. Stiglitz for Foreign Policy: “Letters to the Next President”
Chris Coons interviewed by Bianna Golodryga for CNN: “'Give Ukraine Everything They Need to Defend Themselves,' Says Sen. Chris Coons”
Peter D. Feaver and Heidi Urben for Foreign Affairs: “Don’t Ask the U.S. Military to Save American Democracy”
Susan Glasser, Peter Baker, and moderator Theo Baker at the Baker Institute at Rice University
Michael J. Green and Jude Blanchette interviewed Elina Noor for the Asia Chessboard podcast: “Malaysia’s Path in a Contested Asia”
David Ignatius for The Washington Post: “These People Have Seen Harris in the Situation Room. Here’s What They Have to Say.”
Meghan O’Sullivan on CNBC: “China Approach Under Harris or Trump Could Spin Out Different Outcomes”
Penny Pritzker interviewed by Sara Eisen and Carl Quintanilla for CNBC: “Former Commerce Secretary: Harris Is Not Anti-Business”
Jack Reed quoted by Young Gyo Kim for VOA: “Threats in Indo-Pacific Fuel Debate Over U.S. Nuclear Redeployment”
David E. Sanger, Helene Cooper, and Eric Schmitt for The New York Times: “Biden Poised to Approve Ukraine’s Use of Long-Range Western Weapons in Russia”
Dan Sullivan nominated to be a Representative of the United States of America to the Seventy-Ninth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations
Tweet of the Week
Rising Leaders Program Highlights
Features from ASG Rising Leaders
Felicia Schwartz (‘24), Lucy Fisher, Polina Ivanova, and Isobel Koshiw for the Financial Times: “U.S. and UK to Discuss Allowing Ukraine to Use Long-Range Missiles Against Russia”
Helen Toner (‘21) and Zach Arnold interviewed by Kevin Frazier for the Lawfare Daily podcast: “Helen Toner and Zach Arnold on a Common Agenda for AI Doomers and AI Ethicists”
Things to Know
Content Relevant to Aspen Security Forum Discussions
Kenneth Chang for The New York Times: “First Private Spacewalk in SpaceX Capsule Achieves New Milestone”
James Crabtree for Foreign Policy: “The Coming Clash Between China and the Global South”
Mario Draghi for The Economist: “Mario Draghi Outlines His Plan to Make Europe More Competitive”
The Economist: “The Scary New Map of the South China Sea”
Francis Fukuyama for Foreign Affairs: “The Year of Elections Has Been Good for Democracy”
Jon Harper for DefenseScoop: “10 Vendors Move into Next Phase of NATO Tech Accelerator Program”
International Crisis Group: “Ten Challenges for the UN in 2024-2025”
Eshe Nelson for The New York Times: "European Central Bank Cuts Rates for Second Time in Three Months"
Michael Nienaber and Arne Delfs for Bloomberg: "Stoltenberg to Head Munich Security Conference After NATO Exit"
Cathrin Schaer for DW: “The Teenage Terrorists of the ‘Islamic State’”
Demetri Sevastopulo and Kathrin Hille for the Financial Times: “U.S. and Chinese Military Commanders in Indo-Pacific Hold First Call”
Ben Taub for The New Yorker: “Russia’s Espionage War in the Arctic”
Kejal Vyas for The Wall Street Journal: “U.S. Sanctions 16 Venezuelan Regime Figures for Abetting Election Fraud”
From the Archives
Revisit our conversation on investing in producible and adaptable weapons systems and building tomorrow’s military from the 2024 Aspen Security Forum.
Chris Brose, Chief Strategy Officer, Anduril Industries; Former Staff Director, United States Senate Armed Services Committee
Mara Karlin, Professor, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS; Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, and Capabilities, U.S. Department of Defense
Moderator:
Nick Schifrin, Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Book of the Week
By David M. Rubenstein
“For years, bestselling author David M. Rubenstein has distilled the contours of American democracy through conversations with noted leaders and historians. In The Highest Calling, he offers an enlightening overview of arguably the single most important position in the world: the American presidency.
Blending history and anecdote, Rubenstein chronicles the journeys of the presidents who have defined America as it exists now, what they envision for its future, and their legacy on the world stage. Drawing from his own experience in the Carter administration, he engages in dialogues with our nation’s presidents and the historians who study them...
Through insightful analysis, Rubenstein captures our country’s most prominent leaders, the political genius and frays of the presidential role, and the wisdom
that emerges from it.”
Podcast of the Week
No Such Podcast: “How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign
Signals Intelligence”
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