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Rush Doshi is a scholar of Chinese foreign policy and strategic affairs. He serves as Director for China at the U.
Known for: The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
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The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
In this incisive work, Rush Doshi traces the evolution of China's grand strategy from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, arguing that Beijing has pursued a patient, methodical plan to displace American leadership in Asia and eventually the world. Drawing on Chinese-language sources, official documents, and strategic writings, Doshi reveals how China’s leaders have adapted their approach across three phases—blunting, building, and expanding—to reshape the international order in their favor.
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Phase One: The Era of Blunting (From Tiananmen to the Global Financial Crisis)
During what I call the ‘blunting’ phase, China’s leaders focused on a single objective: to neutralize the instruments of American power that constrained their country’s revival. Following the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, Beijing faced deep diplomatic isolation and a unipolar world dominated by Washingt...
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Phase Two: The Era of Building (The Post-Financial Crisis Period)
The 2008 global financial crisis transformed China’s perception of itself and of the international order. For decades, Beijing had assumed that the U.S.-led system was resilient and that its own path to influence would be gradual. Suddenly, however, the credibility of liberal capitalism appeared sha...
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About Rush Doshi
Rush Doshi is a scholar of Chinese foreign policy and strategic affairs. He serves as Director for China at the U.S. National Security Council and was previously a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Doshi holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has written extensively on China's global strategy ...
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Rush Doshi is a scholar of Chinese foreign policy and strategic affairs. He serves as Director for China at the U.S. National Security Council and was previously a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Doshi holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has written extensively on China's global strategy ...
Rush Doshi is a scholar of Chinese foreign policy and strategic affairs. He serves as Director for China at the U.S. National Security Council and was previously a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Doshi holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has written extensively on China's global strategy and U.S.-China relations.
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