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Foreign Policy Live

What Is America’s China Policy?

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.1622 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

With so much of the focus in recent weeks on the Trump administration’s policies toward Europe, where does that leave the broader trajectory of the U.S.-China relationship? Expert and former Biden administration official Rush Doshi sits down with Ravi Agrawal to discuss. Doshi is currently the C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations.  Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free): Rush Doshi: Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order Lili Pike: Trump’s Europe Shock Creates an Opening for China Lili Pike: Did Biden Get China Right? James Crabtree: Trump Could Make China Great Again Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrual, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief.

1:05.6

This is FP Live.

1:17.0

So as we digest the first few weeks of Trump's foreign policy, one could say that the biggest news, or at least the noisiest news, has had to do with allies. Think of how Washington's

1:23.5

relationship with Europe seems to be at a crossroads. Remember the Oval Office spat with Ukraine

1:28.9

Zelensky? Or think of Mexico and Canada, America's two biggest trading partners, which have had to go

1:35.3

through immense turbulence on tariffs. All this news about Europe, Mexico, Canada, the Middle East,

1:42.1

even, but not as much about China. Why? Now, this could easily change.

1:48.4

Trump has called his first spate of tariffs on China, the initial 10%, that is, an opening salvo,

1:55.1

which hints at a lot more to come. And indeed, there are factions within the Trump White House

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