Exiger Exchange turns global policy and technology headlines into practical intelligence for business leaders.
Each fast, focused episode examines how tariffs, sanctions, export controls, competition over critical technologies and dependence on difficult-to-replace suppliers and capabilities can reshape access to markets, materials, capital and production.
The result is a clearer view of where leverage sits, which dependencies are hardest to unwind and which policy shifts could change the economics of an industry.
How to Win a Trade War: Inside the New Rules of Economic Conflict
With Soumaya Keynes
Trade wars are hard to win but new weapons change that. Soumaya Keynes, Financial Times economics columnist, co-author of How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy, and host of FT’s The Economics Show, joins Kit Conklin to explain why stockpiling, industrial policy, digital services taxes and other tools once dismissed as outdated are back in fashion as countries and companies race to win in an increasingly fragmented global order.
Read What’s Shaping the Conversation
Explore the books our podcast guests are reading, recommending, and returning to—fresh ideas to keep the conversation going long after the episode ends.
The MANIAC
Benjamin Labatut
Recommended By: Patrick McGhee, author of Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamin Labatut
Recommended By: Patrick McGhee, author of Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Recommended By: Brett Freedman, ICIT
The Irony of American History
Reinhold Niebuhr
Recommended By: Michael Sobolik, Hudson Institute
The Power of the Powerless
Václav Havel
Recommended By: Michael Sobolik, Hudson Institute
How China Escaped Shock Therapy
Isabella Weber
Recommended By: Jeremy Dickerson, Managing Editor of International Intrigue
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Dan Wang
Recommended By: Jeremy Dickerson, Managing Editor of International Intrigue
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos
Recommended By: Jeremy Dickerson, Managing Editor of International Intrigue
The Frenchman
Jack Beaumont
Recommended By: Jeremy Dickerson, Managing Editor of International Intrigue
Damascus Station
David McCloskey
Recommended By: Jeremy Dickerson, Managing Editor of International Intrigue
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Patrick McGhee
Recommended By: Josh Lipsky, Atlantic Council
Tuxedo Park
Jennet Conant
Recommended By: Matt McKnight, CEO of Perimeter
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
Edward Fishman
Recommended By: Chris Miller, Author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
David Eagleman
Recommended By: Soumaya Keynes, Co-author of How to Win a Trade War: An Optimistic Guide to an Anxious Global Economy
Kit Conklin
Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy & Global Affairs Officer
Kit Conklin is a seasoned expert in technology, policy, and national security. He brings extensive experience from his time advising members of Congress on supply chain risks, sanctions, and international trade as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. House Select Committee on China.
He is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a graduate of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and the National Intelligence University.
The Systems Beneath Global Competition
Go deeper into the critical technologies, financial networks and supplier relationships that shape how governments exert pressure and how companies respond.
