Welcome to the President's Inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boy's Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

This is the sixth episode in a special 2024 U.S. election series here on the President's inbox.

From now until Election Day, I will be sitting down with experts

to unpack some of the most pressing challenges in the next President's foreign policy inbox.

This week's topic is the China Challenge.

With me to discuss the challenges the next president will face in navigating relations with China

are Liza Tobin and Jake Werner.

Liza is the Senior Director for Economy at the Special Competitive Studies Project, a non-profit

organization working to strengthen America's long-term competitiveness.

She worked for a range of government agencies for almost two decades, starting as an economic

analyst at the CIA, then as a special advisor to the China Strategic Focus Group of the Indo-Pacific

Command, and most recently as the China Director on the staff of

the National Security Council during the Trump and Biden administrations. Her work focuses on the

development of U.S. strategy and policies related to China across trade, economic, environmental,

in military issues.

Eliza's writing has appeared in numerous publications,

including foreign policy in the South China Morning Post.

She is the co-author of The Missing Peace in America's Strategy

for Techno-economic Rivalry with China, which appeared on the Lawfare blog.

Jake is acting director of the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

He was previously a post-doctoral research fellow at Boston University's Global Development Policy Center,

a Harper-Schmidt fellow at the University of Chicago, and a

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