"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

"'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

"'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

"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 [...]

"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.' [...]

“‘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 [...]

"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

"'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 [...]