What Should U.S. Policy Toward China Be?

In this episode of our special Election 2020 series of The President’s Inbox, Mira Rapp-Hooper and Michael D. Swaine join host James M. Lindsay to discuss U.S. policy toward China.

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Host
  • James M. Lindsay
    Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Episode Guests
  • Mira Rapp-Hooper
    Stephen A. Schwarzman Senior Fellow for Asia Studies
  • Michael D. Swaine
    Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Show Notes

In this special Election 2020 series of The President’s Inbox, James M. Lindsay sits down each week with two experts with different views on how the United States should handle its foreign policy challenges. This week, he discusses the relationship between the United States and China with Mira Rapp-Hooper, the Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for Asia studies at CFR and a senior fellow at Yale’s Paul Tsai China Center, and Michael D. Swaine, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

 

Read Lindsay’s takeaways from their conversation and find further readings on his blog, The Water’s Edge.

 

The special Election 2020 episodes of The President’s Inbox are made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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