Rush Doshi
@RushDoshi
Assistant Professor at Georgetown • Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC China 2021-2024 • Author of The Long Game
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.
This piece resonated for me. Great power competition is a race to the future. China is investing in and racing toward its future while America is mortgaging its own for a bit more pleasure and comfort in the present. US needs a new generation of leaders. nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opi…
Between cowardice, incompetence, focus on culture wars, corruption, and isolationist tendencies, the Trump administration is simply not willing or able to stand up to China effectively. noahpinion.blog/p/trump-is-ena…
Europe’s lack of confidence in industrial policy remains striking. Worried the EU can’t build rare earths? The global market is only €3.5B/year. Germany spent more bailing out gas wholesaler Uniper than it would cost to buy 10 years of global rare earth supply.
This behavior is a deal-breaker. It reinforces skepticism of dealing with China writ large.
This is a deeply disappointing red flag for those traveling to China. It chills vitally important people to-people ties. But the reality is that you too could be trapped — possibly for years — if Beijing decides it needs leverage in talks with the US.
This is a deeply disappointing red flag for those traveling to China. It chills vitally important people to-people ties. But the reality is that you too could be trapped — possibly for years — if Beijing decides it needs leverage in talks with the US.
Breaking: Beijing is preventing a U.S. Commerce Department employee from leaving China. Major news.
Breaking: Beijing is preventing a U.S. Commerce Department employee from leaving China. Major news.
Full context on how Beijing is trolling us: - Trump team gave away one of the most important inference chips to Beijing after Nvidia lobbied, easing Beijing’s path to AI dominance. - Trump team knows this is embarrassing, so they pretended it was part of trade talks to make it…
Beijing embarrasses the Trump team ➡️ Trump Admin: We gave up the H20 as part of trade talks. It’s not a unilateral concession for nothing. ➡️ Beijing (effectively): The H20 was not part of the trade talks. Thank you for your proactive unilateral concession.
Thank you for your response, but I am afraid you are responding to a straw man argument. I never wrote that I opposed coercion. For months I have been on the record publicly saying it is needed in some cases to build allied scale. Both persuasion and coercion are important…
We are between a rock and a hard place with our traditional allies. On the one hand, they didn’t seem to be interested in contributing to our joint defense, not just on security but in containing China. This is part of the reason Trump’s policies have been coercive. On military…
BREAKING NEWS: Massive shipbuilding changes in DC. None of them good. @gCaptain has confirmed from a White House source that Trump has closed the shipbuilding office at the NSC. Reuters reports that Ian Bennitt, the President’s Special Assistant for Shipbuilding at the White…