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no bull and the aftermath.

The essence of strategy is to be flexible, but you need consistency in approach generally.

What I argue for in the book is to apply strategic empathy to ensure that we have a more sustainable

and consistent form policy over time.

The strategic empathy is a term I borrowed from a great historian named Zachary Shore and

it really communicates the importance of understanding the perspective of others.

With our friends, that's how we can work together to accomplish our common objectives

and for rivals and enemies and adversaries to recognize the authorship over the future

that they have.

I think that I would just make it an argument for a sustained approach to foreign policy.

That's really what the book is overall, not just on China but on other issues.

What I really hope Jordan is that foreign policy and national security should be an area

that we can all come together around, across the political parties and this partisan divide

that we've seen.

There has been a tendency lately, I think certainly since the 2000s, for an administration

to define its foreign policy mainly as an opposition to the previous administrations.

And I hope that we can achieve a higher degree of continuity going forward.

Jordan Schneider and this is the Law Fair podcast, November 30th, 2020.

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