Ely Ratner quoted in The Wall Street Journal article, “What’s Biden’s New China Policy? It Looks a Lot Like Trump’s”

"Biden advisers see China policy as just as much about rebuilding the U.S. economy as containing China’s. 'The debate should be about who’s going to make America more competitive,' says Ely Ratner, a Biden national security aide in the Obama administration now at the Center for a New American Security..." Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-09-30T22:22:40-04:00September 10, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Ely Ratner quoted in The New York Times article, “Joe Biden’s China Journey”

"'Across the ideological spectrum, we in the U.S. foreign policy community have remained deeply invested in expectations about China — about its approach to economics, domestic politics, security and global order — even as evidence against them has accumulated,'” [Kurt Campbell and Ely Ratner] wrote. “'The policies built on such expectations have failed to change China in the ways we intended or hoped...'” Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-09-30T22:42:43-04:00September 6, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Ely Ratner quoted in The Hill article, “Biden, Under Trump Attack, Casts Himself as Firm on China”

"'The fundamental argument that the campaign is putting forward is, under Trump, China’s position is stronger while the United States' has grown weaker,' said Ely Ratner, who served as deputy national security adviser to Biden during the Obama administration from 2015 to 2017. "'This notion of positioning the United States to out-compete China is at the core of the vice president’s agenda,' Ratner added..." Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-08-01T12:43:17-04:00July 30, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Danny Russel and Ely Ratner quoted in Los Angeles Times article, “As Trump Attacks Biden On China, He’s Playing A Weak Hand”

"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 [...]

2020-08-01T12:42:18-04:00July 27, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Ely Ratner writes with Richard Fontaine in The Washington Post: “The U.S.-China Confrontation Is Not Another Cold War. It’s Something New.”

"With U.S.-China relations in free fall, the Trump administration’s chief arms control negotiator recently proclaimed that 'we know how to win these races and we know how to spend the adversary into oblivion.' This obvious allusion to America’s triumph in the Cold War was only the latest sign that the decades-long rivalry with the Soviet Union has recaptured the attention of Washington’s foreign policy elite. "One prominent camp of experts and former dignitaries is arguing that a new Cold War with [...]

2020-07-10T09:21:41-04:00July 2, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Ely Ratner quoted in New York Magazine article, “China Is Going to Be a Big Issue in the 2020 Campaign. But What Does That Mean?”

"Trade still lingers as an issue for Trump, too. The victory he hoped to herald with 'phase one' of his trade deal could unravel in the response to the coronavirus, dealing another blow to a weak farm economy. As Ely Ratner, a former senior adviser to Biden described Trump’s dilemma to Intelligencer, 'On the one hand, he’s sitting on this totally empty trade deal, but on the other hand, it’s the only thing he can talk about as a concrete agreement.' [...]

2020-06-26T09:04:52-04:00June 23, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Ely Ratner quoted in The Washington Post article, “Bolton Revelations Undercut Trump’s Reelection Message of Toughness on China”

“‘The revelations were shocking to read but they basically confirm everything we already knew about Trump’s approach to China — his total disregard for human rights and the political motivation for the trade deal,' said Ely Ratner, executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security, who served as Biden’s deputy national security adviser from 2015 to 2017. “'Anybody paying attention can see the contrast also between the Cabinet officials who are outspoken on some issues and the president’s [...]

2020-06-26T09:01:31-04:00June 19, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Ely Ratner quoted in the Wall Street Journal article, “A United Front on China Starts to Take Shape”

"China seldom explicitly links its sanctions to foreign-policy goals. This provides 'deniability and the flexibility to escalate and de-escalate at will,' Ely Ratner, executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security, told Congress in 2018. China said its tariffs on Australian barley were the result of an anti-dumping investigation..." Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-06-26T11:39:25-04:00June 17, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

Ely Ratner quoted in The Washington Post article, “Matthew Pottinger Faced Communist China’s Intimidation as A Reporter. He’s Now at The White House Shaping Trump’s Hard Line Policy Toward Beijing.”

"'The problem is the distance between the strategy as [Pottinger] would conceive of it and what is actually coming out as U.S. policy,' said Ely Ratner, who is executive vice president at the Center for a New American Security and worked as an high-ranking adviser to Joe Biden when Biden was vice president. 'Acting in a confrontational, unilateral way is not going to be effective unless you’re coordinating with your allies, and making the necessary investments in the United States to [...]

2020-05-01T14:51:36-04:00April 29, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|

WestExec Partners, Principals, and Senior Advisors featured in the Wall Street Journal article, “U.S. Foreign-Policy Experts Call for Cooperation With China on Coronavirus”

"A large group of prominent American foreign-policy experts, including former high-ranking White House officials from both parties, is calling on the Trump administration to work more closely with China to stem the coronavirus epidemic..." Read the full article here: Full Article

2020-04-14T13:34:55-04:00April 3, 2020|Geopolitical Perspectives|
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