Ely Ratner is a leading defense intellectual on China issues. During the Biden administration, he was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, and before he was confirmed, he directed the Pentagon’s China Task Force. In those capacities, he helped put together the administration’s strategy of building what it called a "lattice work” of defense relationships across the region to try to counter China's growing military power. Before joining the administration he
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