After months of campaigning, interviews, rallies and debates, the result of the 2024 US election is in. It is not just America that is reeling from the result. Trump and his cabinet will have untold impacts on the geopolitical stage, with every nation now asking — what will the result mean? You can see the full breakdown of results, turnout and demographics here
We are Richard Spencer, Larisa Brown and Gabriel Pogrund, journalists at The Times and The Sunday Times, and we are here to tackle some of those questions. AUA.
Hello, I’m Richard Spencer, a foreign correspondent for The Times who has written about China, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe for more than two decades. Until this year I was The Times's Middle East correspondent, but was previously China Correspondent and then Middle East correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. I have covered issues and events as diverse as China's economic policy, the Beijing Olympics, the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war, the rise and fall of Isis, the war in Ukraine and the war in Gaza.
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Hello, I’m Larisa Brown, defence editor at The Times. I’ve reported from multiple conflict zones, including Syria and Libya, and I’m a British Journalism Awards Campaign of the Year winner for my work highlighting the plight of Afghan interpreters.
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Hello, I’m Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times, where I cover UK politics and investigations. I was named Journalist of the Year at the 2023 British Journalism Awards for my reporting on the government, the BBC and MI5 and MI6.
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Are we more or less likely to see tensions escalate in Russia-Ukraine, in Israel-Hamas/Hezbollah, and China-Taiwan?
What world are we leaving to future generations?
Liberals aren’t radical enough to combat these things… We need a movement of the working class with no borders and NO CORPORATE INFLUENCE.
I teach 15 year olds.
Most my kids prefer Trump over Harris.
Do you have insight into how and why his cult of personality expands across borders like it does?
Edit: I live in Norway.
Trump is widely unpopular with anyone 40+, so this isn’t coming from their parents.
Do you think working at a paper run by right-wing oligarch Rupert Murdoch compromises your journalistic ethics?
Follow up: Did you *have* journalistic ethics before you got the job?
Even with all the world leaders speaking out in favor of peace talks with trump, why do so many people still believe he will enhance the current tensions and not ease them?
What do you think of the religious side of his campaign? I’m asking as a gay man.
What will his leadership mean for NATO? Is it likely that he will actually encourage hostile states like Russia to attack those in the alliance who are currently failing to reach the 2% spending requirement like he said he would?
Will the Trump/Vance administration follow through with their promise to invade Mexico and fight the cartels?
Iran has been accused of trying to assassinate Trump, so how do you see his administration’s policy towards Iran and their proxies, especially given his support towards Israel?
I know you’re working from a British perspective, but how do you think it could affect relationships with Latin America?, and I’m not talking only about Mexico. I’ve seen articles on CNN, the NYT, the Guardian and most of the media, and not a single one has mentioned Latin America, outside of one from my local newspaper in Santiago, Chile (with the headline [“Latin America is not a priority to the United States”](https://www.latercera.com/opinion/noticia/columna-de-jorge-sahd-america-latina-no-es-prioridad-para-estados-unidos/W7LFEID4UBEUBMJEDMWM2WPIIQ/))
Are journalists in America getting worried about being jailed or killed like in so many parts of the world with the incoming administration? He has made clear threats against your lives.
Why did the Fourth Estate fail us with their False Equivalency and the normalization of Trump’s behavior?
Thank you for joining us!
It’s been widely reported that Trump plans to levy high tariffs on imported goods from countries like China in an effort to “make them pay” for a variety of things. It’s also been widely reported that those tariffs will simply make goods more expensive for US consumers, as those increased tariffs just get passed along to us
How does that look from the side of China and other countries we import from? Do those tariffs actually accomplish anything or affect the countries they’re aimed at? Or do China et al simply shrug their shoulders and raise their prices, knowing we’ll pay anyway?
How serious are Trump’s plans to destroy the parts of the administrative state that provide consumer protection, environmental protection, administrative support for student loans, as well as food and water safety? And what is the DNC’s plan to stop any of it aside from raise money from (justifiably) scared people, do social media appearances, and wring their hands?
Speaking to republicans in government are you getting a sense they are moving to consolidate power against the principles of their constitution, Are they Just trying to form a functioning government, Or is it a phased effort where the first phase is revenge like Trump Promised then worry about international issues later. I feel this is important so foreign powers can get a sense of where their priorities are and if they are dealing with a whole new kind of American government..
Is WW3 and nuclear war significantly more likely and will it guaranteed affect climate change efforts negatively
Hi, now that Trump has won, are people in US-allied countries worried that America’s support for them will be diminished? I’m especially worried about South Korea where public support for self-made nuclear weapons have risen recently, and East Asia in general. Sorry if the area’s not your expertise!
On a “he will do it first minute in office” to “he will never get around to it because he’s lazy” scale, how quickly will the following happen:
* all support for Ukraine is dropped
* the US of A pull out of NATO, or completely disband the organization
* Trump gives an official “israel, please destroy all those nasty terrorist and fully annex the west bank” speech
* Following on the above: Us aid officialy given to Israel to bomb Lebanon and Iran
* Taiwan is left to its’ own devices and annexed by China
On another, “how will others country react” front:
* Do you think it will finally motivate the EU to become more self-reliant (as they kinda-sorta-maybe started to do during a first trump term, but Biden’s election made us think thigns were back to normal)
* With the tariffs ideas of trump, how much will other countries “drop” the United States as a commercial partner?
* Will China-India tension escalate further?
The Russians played the long game and thanks to Trump, they’ve now won the Cold War.
Trump has said he will stop all wars when he’s in office. What are some best and worst case scenarios with respect to Gaza and Ukraine do you foresee?
If Putin does something drastic to test NATO before Trump takes office, how will the US respond? Does it have the political will to actually come up with a response, or would republicans undermine Biden & NATO?
I have relatives in Taiwan. what do you see as the future for Taiwan now that Trump is president?
Hello Richard, Larisa and Gabriel. Thanks for doing an AUA.
We all witnessed from this election campaign once again more lies and fake news from the mainstream media outlets.
As trust/credibility towards legacy media continues to decline and viewership increasing in alternative media platforms such as podcasts, are you concerned your job working for a legacy media company may soon become obsolete?
This election has heavily impacted the traditional media’s credibility. How is this going to impact legacy media moving forward, and what are the lessons journalists have learned from this?
If it hasn’t been answered already, how do you see the potential for huge tariffs on import goods to affect everyday life for people? I’m worried that because of the heavy reliance on Asia for many things, especially electronics, that we’re in for a bad time.
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