Asst Professor, Georgetown • Director, CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC '21-24 • Wrote The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
I've watched @amanpour on TV for decades. So I was grateful for the opportunity to sit down with her for 15 minutes.
Our interview aired on @CNN this weekend.
We talked China policy, Trump's approach, and why this decade is the decisive decade in the competition.
Is that really the CEO of TikTok sitting next to the next Director of National Intelligence — Tulsi Gabbard — at President Trump’s inauguration?
Evidently, yes.
The TikTok deal is looking like a complete surrender by the admin. And it may even be illegal.
If true, the US will let Beijing determine what appears on the news feeds of 180 million US TikTok users.
Not quite America first. Even advisors to the deal are renouncing it!
China is emerging as a global public goods provider as the US proves unable and unwilling to lead.
This is an important development, and if the trend continues, it’s one with potentially serious consequences for the US role in the world.
In a call between the two foreign ministers, China agreed to supply Italy with 1,000 ventillators and 2 million masks. Additionally, they are donating (!) them 100k respirators, 20k protective suits, and 50k test kits as part of "massive aid" package. corriere.it/politica/20_ma…
The destruction of DOD’s Office Net Assessment is an enormous mistake.
This was a little-known but enormously consequential fifty year-old institution that actually thought long-term.
It helped us win the Cold War, grasped the China challenge early, and figured out revolutions
NEW in @ForeignAffairs: Kurt Campbell and I argue that any serious China strategy must start with an old truth: “Quantity is a quality all its own.”
• Scale matters
• China has it
• We get it only through a new grand strategy of allied scale
We hang together—or separately.
Serbian President: "The only country that can help us is China."
“By now, you all understood that European solidarity does not exist. That was a fairy tale on paper. I believe in my brother and friend Xi Jinping, and I believe in Chinese help."
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China is winning the trade war. They have strong cards, but the truth is the Trump team inadvertently helped them.
Per the @WSJ, the reason China massively escalated in the last 36 hours is because it believes Trump will fold - just as he did on magnets - without reaching for
SCOOP - @nvidia has done deal with Trump administration to pay US government 15% of revenues from #China H20 sales, in unprecedented quid pro quo for export licenses.
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The new acting Undersecretary of State for public diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official:
1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it
2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
NEW: In the Sunday @nytopinion, Kurt Campbell and I argue America alone can’t match China’s scale.
With "allied scale," it’s no contest.
But if Trump keeps alienating US partners, we'll never get there—and the next century will be China's to lose.
As Americans flood Xiaohongshu, we're seeing a lot more direct online interaction between US and PRC citizens.
But the PRC has not always welcomed that, which is partly why it has banned foreign social media.
So Xiaohongshu's recent success is also a test for PRC authorities.
This threat to India just a day after Trump extends a trade truce with China and thanks them for selling us rare earth magnets.
The Trump doctrine is to be tougher on allies and partners than on adversaries.
It’s time to ban Zhao Lijian from Twitter.
Rarely has one PRC official done so much damage to the US-China relationship. He’s actively complicating any kind of cooperative approach on coronavirus. And of course, he’s spreading disinformation.
China’s official disinfo campaign shows no sign of abating. Here a foreign ministry spokesman re-ups the hoax that the coronavirus might have started in the US
