America’s China Strategy, With Rush Doshi

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Council on Foreign Relations

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Rush Doshi, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how America should navigate its geopolitical rivalry with China. Mentioned on the Episode Graham Allison, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap? Hal Brands and Michael Beckley, Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict With China Rush Doshi, The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order Rush Doshi, et al., “Debating the United States’ China Strategy,” CFR.org Rush Doshi, et al., “What Does America Want From China?,” Foreign Affairs Aaron Friedberg, The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895-1905 Mike Gallagher and Matt Pottinger, “No Substitute for Victory: America’s Competition With China Must Be Won, Not Managed,” Foreign Affairs William Langley and Gloria Li, “Chinese Robot Maker Says Protectionism Will Not Stop Its March,” Financial Times For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President’s Inbox at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/tpi/americas-china-strategy-rush-doshi

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0:00.0	Welcome to the President's Inbox, a CFR podcast about the foreign policy challenges facing the United States.
0:10.0	I'm Jim Lindsay, Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
0:13.0	This week's topic is America's China Strategy.
0:28.3	With me to discuss how the United States should navigate its geopolitical rivalry with China is Rush Doshi.
0:34.9	Rush is a CV-star Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative here at the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining
0:39.0	CFR in April, Rush was deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on the staff of the National
0:45.5	Security Council, where he helped manage the NSC's first China Directorate. Rush is the author of the
0:52.8	long game, China's grand, to Displace American Order,
0:57.5	which was published in 2021 and named the winner of the Edgar S. Furnace Book Award,
1:03.4	which recognizes an author's first book in English that makes an exceptional contribution
1:08.3	to the understanding of international, national, or human security.
1:13.8	Rush, thank you for joining me.
1:15.6	Thank you, Jim.
1:16.5	And congratulations on the Furnace Award, quite an accomplishment.
1:19.9	Thank you.
1:20.7	Let's begin with the big picture.
1:23.4	Seemingly, everyone agrees that we have entered an era of geopolitical rivalry with the main
1:29.3	contestants being China in the United States.
1:33.0	So what's driving the competition?
1:35.5	Well, thanks, Jim, and it's great to be on the podcast.
1:38.2	Let me just start by saying that I think this is an intense rivalry that has a lot of dimensions
1:42.7	to it.
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