A new U.S. strategy in East Asia, from the Quincy Institute

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Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with the three authors of a new policy paper from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a relatively new D.C.-based think tank that advocates restraint in U.S. foreign policy. Michael D. Swaine, Jessica J. Lee, and Rachel Esplin Odell authored the report Toward an Inclusive & Balanced Regional Order: A New U.S. Strategy in East Asia, which was published by the Quincy Institute on January 11. In this longer-than-usual episode, they detail their recommendations for how they believe the Biden-Harris administration should approach the region, especially China.

12:17: Sinophobia and Cold War mentalities

23:33: The most pressing issues in East Asia

42:59: Limited disentanglement in U.S.-China technology

52:07: The role of U.S. forces in Japan and South Korea

1:05:30: Taiwan’s “porcupine strategy”

Recommendations:

Rachel: Women in Color, an album by Raye Zaragoza, and The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Jessica: Lengthy puzzles as a way to provide some respite from laptops and cell phones.

Michael: Continuing the trend of non-screen-related activities, Michael recommends taking up oil painting.

Kaiser: Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, by Barton Gellman.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cynical Podcast, the discussion of current affairs in China produced in partnership with SubChina.
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0:22.5	or check out SubChina.com for all the original reported stories, opeds, great regular columns,
0:27.7	and our growing range of videos and podcasts. It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news
0:33.2	about a nation that is reshaping the world. I am Kaiser Guo. I'm coming today for my home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
0:40.4	With Trump finally out of office, the new administration commencing at last,
0:44.5	as one might expect, we've seen a number of policy papers drop recently,
0:48.4	hoping to shape the direction that Biden and Harris, Tony Blinken, Jake Sullivan,
0:51.8	and the others named to the new administration's
0:54.1	foreign policy team will take when it comes to policy toward Asia.
0:58.4	The Asia Society Policy Institute released one recently, but today we're going to be talking
1:02.5	with the authors of a different paper, one put out by the Quincy Institute for Responsible
1:06.8	Statecraft, and titled, A New U.S. strategy in East Asia.
1:12.7	The recommendations in it align very, very closely with those that many of our other guests on this program have put
1:17.2	forward and that I have found personally very compelling. So unsurprisingly, I read the Quincy
1:23.1	recommendations with real relish. My three guests today, the paper's authors, are Michael D. Swain,
1:29.5	Jessica J. Lee, and Rachel Esplan-Aidel, all with the Quincy Institute. Let me introduce each of them
1:35.0	in a little more detail. Michael Swain is director of the Quincy Institute's East Asia program.
1:40.7	He has long been a very prominent analyst of Chinese security studies and has a whole bunch of publications on China's defense and foreign policy under his belt.
1:49.2	Before joining Quincy, he served as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
1:54.9	Previously, he was a senior policy analyst at the Rand Corporation.
1:58.4	You might recall that last time we had Michael on, it was to talk about
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