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Rush Doshi

@rushdoshi.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Georgetown • Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC China 2021-2024 • Author of The Long Game

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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This feels like a milestone moment in Trump's China policy. Credible reports say China provided satellite imagery to Iran that cost American lives. Trump doesn’t deny it but brushes it off to save the summit. Meanwhile China says Taiwan arms sales could kill the summit, so the sales stay frozen.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is a big deal. Essentially a reversal of the US export control policy on advanced chips. Possibly decisive in the AI race. Compute is our main advantage — China has more power, engineers, and the entire edge layer — so by giving this up we increase the odds the world runs on Chinese AI.
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Lori Wallach @wallachlori.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Please listen to @rushdoshi.bsky.social on Rethinking Trade spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/bwkOyI6yNXb
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China’s Devastating Rare-Earths Squeeze: Rush Doshi on What It Means and What the U.S. Must Do Next by Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach
China’s devastating new move to cut off global access to rare-earth minerals could be cataclysmic — shutting down manufacturing of core sectors across the U.S. economy.In this episode of Rethinking Tr...
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
China is winning the trade war. The Trump team helped them. Per the @wsj.com, the reason China massively escalated in the last 36 hours is because it believes Trump will fold - just as he did on magnets - without reaching for any US leverage in response.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This is a land of wolves now? Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re just now telling me for the first time. The rule of law lived an amazing life. What can you even say?
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
“Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony. I’m told there were injuries from the fall, such as broken legs.” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Exactly right. And Trump is moving in the exact opposite direction. Much to Beijing‘s delight. @rushdoshi.bsky.social & Kurt Campbell. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The TikTok deal is looking like a complete surrender by the Trump team. And it may even be illegal. If true, the US will let Beijing determine what appears on the news feeds of 180 million US TikTok users. Not quite America first. Even advisors to the deal are renouncing it!
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 19/08/2025
Multiple agencies and authorities that support the U.S. national security enterprise will expire unless Congress acts quickly, putting America's ability to outcompete China at risk, writes @rushdoshi.bsky.social and William Henagan. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Clock Is Ticking on Critical Authorities to Compete With China
Congress is running out of time to reauthorize foreign and domestic instruments of statecraft critical to protecting American interests.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
🚨 Art of the deal in two WSJ stories showing Trump caving on China policy. ➡️ We unilaterally indicate we’ll remove export controls on the H20 so Beijing can dominate AI, and we seemingly ask for nothing in return. ➡️ On the very same day, Beijing slaps export controls on battery technology.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Important story from Nikkei’s Ken Moriyasu that explains, in part, how Trump police pushed Tokyo to skip NATO, pull down a 2+2, and remain silent on Iran. There is no path to allied scale without Japan. But the relationship is at a low-point now. Sharp reversal from the last four years.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This is superpower suicide.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It is superpower suicide to stop the best foreign minds from coming to the United States and using their talents to propel American prosperity and technological advantage.
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Jim Weingarten @jimweingarten.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Here's a fantastic article by @rushdoshi.bsky.social & @kurtcampbell.bsky.social on the future of America's relationship with China, and the world. Read: archive.is/ZSTKP Listen: ChinaTalk: Allied Scale: Rush Doshi on US-China Net Assessment traffic.megaphone.fm/CHTAL5455872... #UnforcedErrors
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 21/04/2025
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Kurt Campbell and @rushdoshi.bsky.social discuss the sources of Chinese power—and whether the Trump administration has an endgame in its confrontation with Beijing. Start listening here:
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Why America Shouldn’t Underestimate Chinese Power
A Conversation With Kurt Campbell and Rush Doshi
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Elizabeth M.F. Grasmeder @emfgrasmeder.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Seconded. Great read! @rushdoshi.bsky.social
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Now listening to "The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order" by @rushdoshi.bsky.social.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Does Joe Rogan have buyer’s remorse? Watch him come out swinging for due process. There’s a creeping sense that the right has overreached among many former Trump supporters.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“He did say he was a citizen, but they didn't believe him. I think they would have kept him….He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.” news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
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U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 17/04/2025
On the latest episode of “The Foreign Affairs Interview,” Kurt Campbell and @rushdoshi.bsky.social discuss what U.S. observers of China get wrong—and the dangers of underestimating Chinese power. Start listening here:
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Why America Shouldn’t Underestimate Chinese Power
A Conversation With Kurt Campbell and Rush Doshi
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):
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Andrew Peaple @andypeaps.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Trump deserves some credit for creating the bipartisan approach on China but then has never fully embraced it...That irony is at the heart of the second Trump term." @rushdoshi.bsky.social speaks to @bobdavis187.bsky.social for @thewirechina.bsky.social www.thewirechina.com/2025/03/23/r...
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Rush Doshi on Trump, Taiwan, Tariffs and Biden’s Legacy on China - The Wire China
A top official on China under President Biden talks about trying to achieve a ‘steady state’ in U.S.-China relations and whether Washington can prise Moscow and Beijing apart.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The destruction of DOD’s Office Net Assessment will be celebrated in Beijing & Moscow. This little-known but enormously consequential 50 year-old institution actually thought long-term. It helped us win the Cold War, grasped the China challenge early, and figured out revolutions in warfare.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“Trust me, bro” is not an argument. Business insiders have used government to make money for literally millennia. Crony capitalism dates back to Ancient Rome. Spare us the moral outrage for being held accountable.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
They are losing the posters
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“You juke the stats, and majors become colonels. I’ve been there before.” - Roland ‘Prez’ Pryzbylewski www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring effect of Doge cuts
Howard Lutnick’s remarks echo Elon Musk, who says government spending doesn’t create value for US economy
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Tired: Rug pull random crypto investors Wired: Rug pull your political supporters Inspired: Rug pull the entire country
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
One day after Trump berates Zelenskyy, Musk calls for the US to leave NATO.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
While we threaten the Canadians with tariffs and annexation, they’re standing with us in the Taiwan Strait. There’s no coherent or systematic logic to the Trump administration’s coercion of allies right now. It’s all just vibes. focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...
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Canadian frigate transits Taiwan Strait - Focus Taiwan
A Canadian patrol frigate transited the Taiwan Strait Sunday, the first such instance this year, according to Taiwanese authorities.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Asahi Shimbun, leading Japanese newspaper, has a sharp take on the “Gulf of America” drama and the decision to ban AP: “What is going on in the White House is foolish beyond belief” H/t @tobiasharris.bsky.social
Excerpt from Asahi Shimbun: The “Shiji,” an ancient Chinese historical text, contains the following episode.
Zhao Gao, a high-ranking official of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), gifted the emperor with a deer, insisting it was a horse. Laughing, the amused emperor asked his entourage what they thought.
Some, afraid of Zhao Gao’s power, remained silent. Others played up to him. But there was one man who told the truth as he saw it: “It’s a deer.” He was later put to death by Zhao Gao.
In Japan, there is a theory that this is how the Japanese word “baka” (fool), written with the kanji characters for “horse” and “deer,” originated.
I can only marvel at the perfect parallel between the Qin incident in ancient China and what took place earlier this week in Washington, D.C.
An Associated Press reporter was barred from attending an event in the Oval Office on Feb. 12.
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, in disregard of more than four centuries of it being known otherwise.
The White House demanded that the AP comply with this change in its influential Stylebook, but the news agency refused. Hence the shutting out of its reporter from the Oval Office.
Referring to the incident, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, “If we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable.”
This is utterly beyond belief. The leader of a nation arbitrarily changes the name of something and punishes those who refuse to go along with it. And this has happened in the 21st century United States, of all places.
“The White House cannot dictate how news organizations report the news,” the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association said in a statement.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” Scotten served three combat tours in Iraq as a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer and earned two Bronze Stars. Clerked for Roberts and Kavanaugh.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Had this to say in Nahal Toosi’s column on Trump China policy. “Trump helped create the bipartisan consensus on outcompeting China, & his staff generally gets it, but many people worry that his policies from trade to TikTok to Taiwan risk making China great again." www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Trump Is Turning Out To Be a Very Pro-China President
From tariffs on allies to gutting aid programs to mocking the rule of law, the president’s moves could be a dream come true for the Chinese.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
And it has huge national security implications. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Does DOGE Pose a National Security Risk?
Uncertainty about access and authority will worry allies and tempt adversaries.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Kash Patel is reportedly (1) on SHEIN’s payroll, (2) appears to have concealed or understated these relationships, (3) *won’t divest while being FBI director* and (4) supports cutting efforts to counter PRC influence.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Disturbing ties between Kash Patel and SHEIN — a PRC company implicated in forced labor in Xinjiang. He has millions in shares and won’t divest. Especially concerning amid reports that DOJ/FBI is going to reduce focus on PRC influence efforts in the US. Full detail below from Roger Sollenberger:
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Paul Heer @pauljcheer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I don't think I've heard the term "Uyghur supremacy" before.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Look guys. It’s pretty simple. They said they were China hawks—they just never specified which China.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The new acting Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy — State’s top public diplomacy official: 1) not only denies the Uyghur genocide but appears to applaud it 2) says the US should sell out Taiwan to China for concessions in Antarctica (???)
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Hey chat, is this cope?
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Did they fire the Special Security Officers for doing their jobs? Never heard of anything like this. You can’t simply walk into a SCIF and access a classified system, even if you have clearance!
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Trump's top defense official for Southeast Asia on cutting aid to the Philippines: "The US might begin a cooperation spiral with China by proposing to remove US military forces or weapons systems from the Philippines in exchange for the CCG executing fewer patrols..."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
very curious what Sen. Tom Cotton thinks about this photo
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It’s more a “don’t trust the guys hacking your critical infrastructure to run your social media, bro” kind of thing
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Is that really the CEO of TikTok sitting next to the next Director of National Intelligence — Tulsi Gabbard — at President Trump’s inauguration? Evidently, yes.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
TikTok had 268 days to sell itself so it wasn’t operated by China. That would have solved everything. But they didn’t even try. China wouldn’t let them. Now, with time short, they want Biden to ignore a bipartisan law SCOTUS upheld 9-0. If they shut down, it’s on them.
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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The fate of #China economist #GaoShanwen, reportedly silenced by #XiJinping for having offered a pessimistic view about GDP, is reminiscent of censoring increasing Gini, silencing Dr. #GaoYaojie on AIDS epidemic or Dr. #LiWenliang on Covid, covering up train wrecks, etc. www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Exclusive | Xi Jinping Muzzles Chinese Economist Who Dared to Doubt GDP Numbers
Gao Shanwen questioned Beijing’s ability to boost its economy as threats loom from a property meltdown and burgeoning debt.
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Mike Pence on today’s certification of Trump’s win: “…it being particularly admirable that Vice President Harris would preside over the certification of a presidential election that she lost.”
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This account just opened up, reposted all my posts, and simply added “121” to my handle in an effort to pretend to be me. @rushdoshi121.bsky.social
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Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Friends, please help me report this false account that is impersonating me. It’s @rushdoshl.bsky.social 1) The brilliant handle innovation was to substitute the “i” in Doshi for “I” 2) It’s also reposted all my old posts, which is sort of dispositive evidence of intentional deception.
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