Progressive Players: Rising Democrats' View of Asia Grand Strategy with Kelly Magsamen and Mira Rapp-Hooper

In part one of a two-part discussion, Mike is joined by Kelly
Magsamen, vice president for national security and international
policy at the Center for American Progress and a former pentagon
and NSC official; and Mira Rapp-Hooper, senior fellow for Asia
studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and Yale Law School
China center. With the Democratic presidential primary in full
swing, the three discuss the history of Democratic grand strategy
in Asia, noting the prevalence of both realist and institutionalist
tendencies in Democratic administrations. Stay tuned for a further
discussion on the importance of trade strategy, defense issues, and
democratic values in a future Democratic administration’s Asia
grand strategy in part two Download full transcript here.