Jessica Chen Weiss is a professor of political science at Cornell University. From August 2021 to July 2022, she served as senior advisor to the State Department’s policy planning staff on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars. Weiss earned her Ph.D at the University of California, San Diego. Her previous work has focused on Chinese nationalism, and she is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations. In this lightly edited Q&A, we spoke with Weiss about how she would define success in the U.S.-China relationship and what she sees as a dangerous echo chamber in discussions about China.
Jessica Chen Weiss. Illustration by Lauren Crow
Q: You wrote an article published in Foreign Affairs last month which laid out risks in the current U.S. approach to China policy. Why did you think it was important to write the piece?
A: One of the things that I took away from my time
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