Publications

Pompeo bet against China — and COVID-19 may prove him right

June 16, 2020 The Hill

No one knows how the U.S.-China relationship will evolve in the next month, let alone the coming decade. In this way, policymaking is always a gamble of sorts. But if you know your opponent has a losing hand, playing the odds becomes easier. When it comes to China, Pompeo has this diplomatic acumen in spades.

China Reform Monitor No. 1418

May 28, 2020 Joshua Eisenman

Apple will move a third of airpod production to Vietnam;
Indonesia presses China to answer boat abuse claims;
China micro-managing Nepali politics?;
New Zealand says it backs WHO role for Taiwan;
Chinese ships chase Japanese fishing boat near Senkaku Islands

The Next Challenge To U.S.-Israeli Ties: China

May 21, 2020 Ilan I. Berman National Institute for Public Policy Information Series no. 459

Earlier this month, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Israel on his first foreign visit since the outbreak of the global coronavirus pandemic...the Secretary’s visit was intended ...to put Israel’s government on notice that it needed to rethink its growing political, economic and strategic ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).