The second Trump administration’s approach to China so far differs from the more consistently hawkish posture of the first term. To analyze the increasingly dangerous state of our geopolitical ...
From the end of the Cold War until recently, the West subsisted on a diet of delusions about China. Economic liberalization, the United States told itself, would lead to political liberalization.
Many on the right have been advocating for a reverse “Nixon to China” policy in recent weeks. In this scenario, the U.S. would make concessions in Ukraine and thereby pull Russia out of China’s orbit, ...
Not long after the collapse of the Soviet Union, scholars like Aaron Friedberg, John Mearsheimer, and Richard Betts began voicing concerns about a new era of great power competition with China. But ...
The United States needs a strategy for dealing with China as an economic and national security threat, and Donald Trump’s blustery “America First” approach ain’t it. Kamala Harris has a better shot ...
Twenty-five years after the beginning of the first so-called China shock, when a surge in Chinese exports disrupted manufacturing and industrial sectors worldwide, Beijing has again begun to flood ...
Wilson School professors Aaron Friedberg and John Ikenberry debated the rise of China and its implications for the United States’ hegemony and foreign policy in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber on ...
After two years in the White House as deputy assistant for national security affairs and director of policy planning, Aaron Friedberg has returned to his joint post as a professor of politics and ...