Then-President-elect Joe Biden announced key members of his national security team, such as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, in a Wilmington, Del., event on Nov. 24, 2020. Credit: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images
Eyes turned to Alaska and Japan this past week as the Biden administration saw its first in-person meetings with Japanese and Chinese officials. With names like Blinken, Sullivan, Campbell, and Ratner cited, The Wire put together a resource of the Biden administration officials responsible for helping shape China policy.
The China challenge has come up several times in the first two months of the Biden administration. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met in Anchorage, Ala., with Chinese officials this week. Ely Ratner, a special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, was assigned to lead the Defense Department’s China Task Force, which is taking four months to design a set of priorities and recommendations on China for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
During Senate confirmation hearings in recent weeks, many of President Biden's picks were pressed on China policy. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) attempted to block Gina Raimondo’s confirma
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When Ken Wilcox, a former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, moved to Shanghai in 2011, he was optimistic and eager to start up the bank's new joint venture in China. A decade later, however, he is extremely cynical about U.S. business interests in China. While analysts will, rightly, be debating SVB's missteps in the U.S. for the foreseeable future, Wilcox insists the bank's challenges in China should not be overlooked.
The former secretary of state talks about how the Trump administration changed U.S.-China relations; why he accused Beijing of genocide in Xinjiang; and why U.S. politicians should visit Taiwan.
