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The Pandemic and the Protests

How Trump’s response to both endangers U.S. national security.

By , a former editor in chief of Foreign Policy.
Police White House Fence
Police White House Fence
Police officers hold a perimeter behind the metal fence recently erected in front of the White House on June 2 as demonstrators gather to protest the killing of George Floyd. OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images

On June 3, Foreign Policy’s editor in chief hosted an FP Insider conference call with two leading U.S. national security experts: Kori Schake, currently the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Jake Sullivan, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an informal senior campaign advisor to former Vice President Joe Biden. On the agenda: how the twin crises, and the president’s response, are threatening America’s security. The following excerpt of the conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

Jonathan Tepperman is a former editor in chief of Foreign Policy and the author of The Fix: How Countries Use Crises to Solve the World’s Worst Problems. Twitter: @j_tepperman

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