Shaking the Global Order S3, Ep 2: Doshi

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of US-China relations under the Biden administration and the potential changes with a second Trump presidency.

US-China relations during the Biden administration was marked by growing competition and rivalry. Many of the aspects of US-China relations of the first Trump presidency were retained by the Biden administration. We have now returned to a second Trump administration. What are we likely to now see in US foreign policy under a second Trump presidency; what will US-China relations likely be going forward? What will be the state of relations of each with players in Europe and in the Indo-Pacific? To examine these critical matters, it was with great pleasure that I invited my colleague Rush Doshi into the Virtual Studio for our new Season 3 of podcasts of ‘Shaking the Global Order’. Today’s podcast with Rush explores these critical global power issues. Rush Doshi is the C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also an assistant professor in the Security Studies Program in Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Rush was deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on the National Security Council (NSC) from 2021 to 2024, where he helped manage the NSC's first China directorate. He is…

People in this episode

Guest: Rush Doshi

Topics covered

• US-China relations
• Biden administration
• Trump presidency
• foreign policy
• global power issues
• competition and rivalry

Keywords

• US-China relations
• Biden administration
• Trump presidency
• foreign policy
• global power
• Rush Doshi
• Council on Foreign Relations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Council on Foreign Relations, Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, National Security Council

Books & works: The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

Places: United States, China, Europe, Indo-Pacific

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