H. R. McMaster served President Trump as the nation's 26th National Security Advisor in 2017 and 2018. A retired Lt. General in the U.S. Army with a PhD in American history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, McMaster served in the Gulf War and was recognized for his roles in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. His first book, Dereliction of Duty, about U.S. failures during the Vietnam War, was a New York Times best seller. His new book, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World (Harper), deals partly with the challenges the country faces with China. In "How China Sees the World," an excerpt from his book published last May in the Atlantic magazine, McMaster wrote about accompanying President Trump on a visit to Beijing, a visit he said convinced him even more that a dramatic shift in American policy towards China was overdue. What follows are lightly edited excerpts of our discussion.
H.R. McMaster
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