The Tea Leaves Podcast
1) IPDI Spotlight: Reimagining the Allied Maritime Industrial Base
In this Indo-Pacific Defense Incubator (IPDI) Spotlight episode of Tea Leaves, Kelly Magsamen and Chris Johnstone sit down with Admiral (Ret.) John Richardson and Admiral (Ret.) James Foggo to explore...Show More
2) IPDI Spotlight: Accelerating Allied Innovation Through AUKUS Pillar II
In this episode of Tea Leaves, Kelly Magsamen, Senior Advisor at The Asia Group, sits down with Abe Denmark, TAG Partner and former Senior AUKUS Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, to unpack the stra...Show More
3) Building the Indo-Pacific’s Defense Future: Innovation, Industry, and Alliances with Kelly Magsamen
In this episode of Tea Leaves, Rexon and Mira sit down with Kelly Magsamen, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and newly appointed Senior Advisor at The Asia Group, to introduc...Show More
4) Dr. Kurt Campbell Returns to Tea Leaves to Discuss The China Challenge: Industrial Scale and Allied Strategy
In this episode of Tea Leaves, TAG Chairman Dr. Kurt Campbell joins the show to discuss his recent Foreign Affairs article, “Underestimating China,” and outlines why the United States must shift its s...Show More
5) Tariff Shockwaves: The New Era of U.S.-China Economic Competition
In this episode of Tea Leaves, Rexon Ryu and Tiffany Ma are joined by Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper, head of The Asia Group’s Geopolitics Practice, and Dr. Evan Medeiros to assess where things stand nearly two...Show More
6) Trump’s Tariffs, Technology, and Transactionalism - U.S. Policy in Asia After January
In this episode of the Tea Leaves Podcast, Rexon Ryu and Tiffany Ma are joined by Ambassador Kurt Tong to explore the Indo-Pacific's response to the re-election of Donald Trump. Ambassador Tong provid...Show More
7) China Outlook: Evan Medeiros on the China’s Complex, Competitive Relations with the U.S. and EU
In this episode of Tea Leaves, TAG President Rexon Ryu and Dr. Evan Medeiros explore the expanding scope of US-China and EU-China competition in the spheres of security, economics, technology, and gov...Show More
8) Sharon Burke on Environmental Security and the Energy Transition
Sharon Burke is the Founder and President of Ecospherics, an environmental research and advisory firm based in Washington, D.C. She most recently served as the lead on climate change, energy, and envi...Show More
9) Jennifer Welch on the Taiwan Election and Cross-Strait Dynamics
Jennifer Welch is the Chief Geoeconomics Analyst at Bloomberg. She most recently served as Director for China and Taiwan on the U.S. National Security Council and as Special Advisor for Asia and the P...Show More
10) Debbie Yong on Indo-Pacific Consumer Trends and Food Culture
Debbie Yong is a Senior Strategist focusing on the Asia-Pacific region at WGSN, a consumer-trend forecasting company. She previously worked as the Editorial Director of the Michelin Guide in Asia and ...Show More