August 31, 2024

Kamala Harris isn’t looking to pick new fights with China, unlike Donald Trump

Source: Bloomberg

Journalist: Iain Marlow

In another sign, Harris has picked Tim Walz as her running mate, someone with rich experience working in the Asian nation. Meanwhile, Gordon’s memo highlighted that Harris had visited the Indo-Pacific region four times and dedicated “significant time and energy” to strengthening alliances there. “The fact that Harris spent a lot of time in Asia says something about her China strategy,” said Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think-tank who advised Biden on Asia policy when he was vice president. “There is an old axiom that the best China strategy is a good Asia strategy.”

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  • Jacob Stokes

    Senior Fellow, Indo-Pacific Security Program

    Jacob Stokes is a Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific Security Program at CNAS, where his work focuses on U.S.-China relations, Chinese foreign and military policy, East Asian ...