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David E. Sanger in Conversation with Sir Mark Thompson: New Cold Wars

David Sanger and Sir Mark Thompson
New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West

Join Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author David E. Sanger — White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times — for a conversation on the tense geopolitical order of our moment and his new book, New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West.

America is at a precipice in conflicts across the world — from Russia to China to the Middle East. Will the mistakes Putin made in his invasion of Ukraine prove his undoing and will he reach for his nuclear arsenal — or will the West’s famously short attention span signal Kyiv’s doom? Will Xi invade Taiwan? Will both men deepen their partnership to undercut America’s dominance? How will Iran’s recent strike against Israel affect these power dynamics? Can a politically polarized America use effective diplomacy to prevent Israel’s war in Gaza from spiraling into a wider regional conflict? In New Cold Wars, David E. Sanger takes these questions on with keen intelligence and a profound depth of knowledge, bringing cold clarity to America’s plunge into simultaneous confrontations across the world. Hear him discuss the making of the book and America’s waning dominance in the geopolitical order, how Israel’s war in Gaza is affecting these struggles, the future of our relationships with China and Russia, and much more.

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David Sanger

David E. Sanger is the White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times …

David Sanger

David E. Sanger is the White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times and the bestselling author of The Inheritance, Confront and Conceal, and The Perfect Weapon. He has been a member of three teams that won the Pulitzer Prize, including in 2017 for international reporting about Russia’s effort to manipulate the presidential election. A contributor to CNN, he also teaches national security policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Sir Mark Thompson

Sir Mark Thompson is Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide where he oversees all aspects of the business …

Sir Mark Thompson

Sir Mark Thompson is Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide where he oversees all aspects of the business in the U.S. and around the world. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of CNN.

In addition to his work at CNN, Mark is the Chairman of Ancestry; Deputy Chair of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Co-Chair of the International Fund for Public Interest Media, a new global fund to support journalists around the world.

Mark stepped down as President and CEO of The New York Times Company in the summer of 2020 after an eight-year tenure (2012-20) during which he led the transformation of the 170-year-old news brand into a digital powerhouse. Digital subscribers jumped to nearly 6 million, up from half a million when he joined. NYTCo stock quintupled in value during his period as CEO.

Sir Mark’s appointment at The New York Times Company followed an eight-year term (2004-12) as Director General (Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive) of the BBC. As well as guiding the BBC’s coverage of the global financial crisis and the 2012 London Olympic Games, he is credited with major advances in the BBC’s digital offering and digital audience reach, including the successful launch of the BBC’s iPlayer, one of the world’s first streaming services from a major broadcaster (2007).

He joined the BBC from Channel 4 where he was Chief Executive from 2002 to 2004. Before Channel 4 he held a series of senior posts at the BBC including Editor of The Nine O’clock News and Panorama, Controller of BBC Two and Director of Television.

His book, Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics? was published in the UK and US in September 2016. He was educated at Stonyhurst College and Merton College Oxford. He is an honorary fellow of Merton College Oxford and a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Mark is married and has three children and is based in New York City.

He was knighted for services to Media in King Charles III’s Birthday Honours in June 2023.

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