"'The approach that Biden supported was more along the lines of a war of attrition with North Korea,' Russel said. 'If giving up its nuclear program is the last thing on earth that North Korea wants to do, we need to make it the last thing on earth that North Korea can do in order to survive...'" Read the full article here: Full Article
"'Biden’s top priority is going to be trying to resuscitate the U.S. economy, trying to restore as much American leadership, American primacy as he possibly can,' said Russel. 'Those are tall orders and to try to address the havoc wreaked by the uncontrolled outbreak of COVID-19, you’ve got a lot more to worry about than just China...'" Read the full article here: Full Article
"'The China that will face Joe Biden in January of 2021 is vastly more powerful and more formidable as an adversary than the China that he and Obama dealt with up until the end of 2016,' said Daniel Russel, a top Asian affairs official in the Obama administration and now a vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute..." Read the full article here: Full Article
"Ely Ratner, a former Biden advisor now at the Center for a New American Security, co-wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2018, 'Nearly half a century since Nixon’s first steps toward rapprochement, the record is increasingly clear that Washington once again put too much faith in its power to shape China’s trajectory...' "Midway through the Obama administration, he was in China when it announced a 'military defense zone' in the airspace of U.S. allies in Asia, declaring planes could not fly through [...]
"'The Chinese seem to be under no illusions that a Biden victory would reverse Washington’s view of China, but will likely make an overture for dialogue with a new administration,' said Daniel Russel, the top diplomat for East Asia under President Barack Obama and early in the Trump administration. "Russel has no formal role in the Biden campaign but is close to the candidate’s foreign policy advisers..." Read the full article here: Full Article
"China will inevitably retaliate over the United States' ordered closure of the mainland's Houston consulate, adding to 'escalating tit-for-tat' bilateral tensions, says Daniel Russel, vice president for international security and diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute..." Watch the full interview here: Full Interview
"Former officials were perplexed. Danny Russel, the former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs who left the department in 2017, said that when he was at State and the National Security Council, 'the Chinese consulate in Houston did not have a particular reputation as an acute vector of espionage.' "'It is very hard for me to figure out what China could do uniquely from its consulate in Houston that it could not equally well do from its [...]
"Daniel Russel, who served in Mr. Stilwell’s job during the Obama administration, said closing the Houston consulate 'further reduces the few remaining diplomatic channels between the two sides and is a step that will prove difficult to reverse.' “'The China accusation that this move has more to do with presidential politics than with intellectual property is hard to argue with,' said Mr. Russel, now a vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute..." Read the full article here: Full Article
"'Hong Kong for Westerners is not obscure and exotic like Xinjiang. It’s not an abstraction like the South China Sea,' said Daniel Russel, a former U.S. diplomat. 'It’s a very familiar place.' "He said the David and Goliath-like storyline of Hong Kong residents protesting publicly to defend democracy struck nerves everywhere..." Read the full article here: Full Article
"Daniel Russel, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific in the second Obama term, said that the Obama administration had accepted the tribunal’s 2016 ruling as 'final and binding,' and that Mr. Pompeo’s statement was more 'chest-pounding and angry invective about China' than a change in policy..." Read the full article here: Full Article