Rush Doshi

China wants to make it harder for companies to leave. They are hoping to move towards automation and smart manufacturing with their huge 5G grid in order to keep China cheap and at the center of global supply chains. Many of those supply chains they already dominate.

The power gap [between China and the United States] is closing, and the ideological gap is widening.

On the global stage, [China is] hoping to fill the void of U.S. leadership. They have a long way to go, but they’re trying.

This could be the first major global crisis in decades without meaningful U.S. leadership and with significant Chinese leadership.

The lesson for Washington is not that we need to emulate the Chinese economic model, but rather that we need to better steward the industrial base in key sectors.

If they [China] provide public goods [such as test kits and other aid], this is going a long away, and these narratives are meant to help to accelerate that process [of rewriting the narrative]. And I think they may be successful at it if they are really going to show in a big way they are on the ground in a place like Iran, making a difference.