David Sanger is the White House and National Security Correspondent for the New York Times, where he's worked for more than four decades and covered five American presidents.
His latest book 'New Cold Wars' examines the relationship between the U.S., Russia and China and looks at how technology, military intelligence and economic sanctions play into the conflict.
His book draws on interviews with top officials from those five US presidential administrations - Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden.
David Sanger has been in New Zealand this week as a guest of the NZUS Council and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
He tells Paddy Gower about this year's election on the foreign policy front.