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What Would a Democrat Midterm Win Mean for U.S. Foreign Policy?
The midterms will shape the direction of US foreign policy in the next two years with pressures from competition with China, to Israel and the war with Iran. Liza Tobin [adjun...
By Liza Tobin
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Former NSC China Director on Trump-Xi Summit
Liza Tobin, Former China Director at the US National Security Council, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and Managing Director of Garnaut Global...
By Liza Tobin
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Is the U.S. Economy Too Dependent on China?
Liza Tobin, former China Director on the National Security Council and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins host Jay Sapsford on The Call Pod...
By Liza Tobin
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What Will the Latest Trump-Xi Summit Bring? Four Experts Set the Stakes.
Both leaders want a big show, and their teams are going through the motions of staging one....
By Liza Tobin
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How China Is Stealing America’s AI
Sometimes the fingerprints are obvious: Kimi K3 has identified itself as “Claude,” Anthropic’s model; it was trained on so much of its rival’s output that it mistakes itself f...
By Liza Tobin
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Analysts Break Down Trump-Xi Meeting and Calls for Stability and Cooperation
For perspective on President Trump's trip and the broader U.S.-China relationship, Geoff Bennett spoke with Myron Brilliant and Liza Tobin. Brilliant is at the DGA Group and i...
By Liza Tobin
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How America Can Stop Getting Played by China
This article was originally published in Foreign Affairs. In May 1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton tested whether economic leverage could be converted into political influence...
By Liza Tobin & Addis Goldman
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Trump Isn’t That Serious About Defeating Xi
This article was originally published in The Wall Street Journal.We wish we could agree with Matthew Kroenig’s assessment that the Trump administration is serious about defeat...
By Liza Tobin
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U.S.-China Trade Talks Return to ‘Fragile Ceasefire’ – Former China Director
The United States and China say they've reached a "framework agreement" to avoid another 100% US tariff on Chinese goods. Officials have even been hinting of a trade breakthro...
By Liza Tobin
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How to Escape China’s Rare-Earth Chokehold
This article was originally published in The Wall Street Journal. Your editorial is right that countering China’s weaponization of rare-earth supply chains requires technologi...
By Liza Tobin
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Why the Latest U.S.-China Tech Fight May Be the Biggest Yet
Tensions between the U.S. and China are inflamed yet again — with the tech sector in the crossfire. In the latest move, Beijing has threatened to restrict the trade of rare ea...
By Liza Tobin
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Selling H20 Chips to China Will Come at a Cost, with Liza Tobin
We interrupt our summer break to provide quick reactions to news this week that the Trump administration will begin allowing Nvidia and AMD to sell certain advanced semiconduc...
By Geoffrey Gertz & Liza Tobin
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Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security
Scrapping AI Export Controls Is Self-DefeatingBeijing surely has two goals in mind: Signal to domestic companies that they ought to shun American technology as soon as possible, and manipulate Nvidia to reveal how it desi...
By Liza Tobin & Matt Pottinger
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How Do You Tariff a Movie and Liza Tobin on the Trade War with China
China expert Liza Tobin, managing director at Garnaut Global and new CNAS adjunct senior fellow, joins Emily Kilcrease and Geoffrey Gertz to discuss the ins and outs of the US...
By Emily Kilcrease, Geoffrey Gertz & Liza Tobin