Ep. 255: Chris Johnson on Trump vs China

Chris Johnson spent nearly two decades at the CIA focusing on China and Asia. Today, Chris is the President and CEO of China Strategies Group. He also serves as a Senior Fellow on Chinese Politics at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis and is a senior fellow in the office of the president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the preeminent foreign and security policy think tank in Washington, DC. In this podcast, we discuss: 

• Working at the CIA 
• What type of leader is Chinese President Xi Jinping 
• How US policy towards China has evolved since Obama 
• What to expect from Trump 2.0 
• How China views the US and Trump 
• What can China buy from the US? 
• China lawfare and earlier retaliatory measures 
• China and Middle East 
• China and Ukraine 
• China economic policy 
• DeepSeek 
• Books mentioned: The Great Transformation (Westad, Jian), Karla trilogy (le Carre), The Twelve Caesars (Suetonius) 

You can get more details on Chris’ work here. 

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