The Economist Live

America and the world

As America prepares for a presidential election, the country faces fundamental questions about its role on the world stage, the strength of its democracy and the future of its economic power. Join our journalists for in-person events on the forces that will shape America in 2024 and beyond.

China, Russia and the new geopolitics

Artillery fire in Europe and a new cold war between the world's two largest economies-not long ago, both would have seemed far-fetched. Yet Russia's war in Ukraine drags on. President Xi Jinping wants a new world order, with China at its helm. What does China and Russia's deepening alliance mean for the United States? How do America's allies view its global leadership? And how might the presidential election change the future of American power?

Presented in partnership with the New-York Historical Society

Speakers

Zanny Minton Beddoes - Editor-in-chief

Shashank Joshi - Defence editor

David Rennie - Beijing bureau chief and Chaguan columnist

Alice Su - Senior China correspondent


The war in Ukraine and the future of global order

American support has helped Ukraine fend off Russia to date, but the war's future remains uncertain. What would a Ukrainian victory look like, and how should America hasten it? How has the war reshaped American diplomacy and NATO? What lessons has China gleaned from Russia's invasion? Join our Editor-in-chief and senior correspondents for a discussion of evolving strategy in Ukraine, the durability of American support and how the war might end.

Speakers

Zanny Minton Beddoes - Editor-in-chief

Shashank Joshi - Defence editor

Anton La Guardia - Diplomacy editor

Arkady Ostrovsky - Russia and eastern Europe editor