Elizabeth Economy is Co-Director of the US, China, and the World Project and Hargrove Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s ...

China expert and Hudson Institute analyst Michael Pillsbury said Friday on Fox News that President-elect Donald Trump’s comprehensive strategy to engage China could prompt major concessions ...

Within his first 100 days of taking office, President Trump should articulate a comprehensive, coherent strategy for dealing with China.

The idea was that as China grew richer, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would adopt democratic principles to align with its people’s aspirations. But this approach was disastrously misguided.

China’s recent actions, including the creation of the two new counties, are a part of its ongoing strategy of cartographic aggression aimed at asserting control over disputed territories.

This will leave Australia trapped in China’s sphere of interest. The biggest unknown remains Beijing’s strategy to withstand Trump, which will be a combination of appeasement, diversification, ...