Aaron Friedberg on The Rise of China and the Strategic Threat to the US

Aaron Friedberg on “The Rise of China and the Strategic Threat to the US.” Aaron L. Friedberg (’78), who got his PhD from the Harvard Government Department, is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and co-director of the Woodrow Wilson School’s Center for International Security Studies. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a Senior Advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research. Friedberg is the author of, among other books, A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia, Beyond Air-Sea Battle: The Debate Over U.S. Military Strategy in Asia, and co-editor (with Richard Ellings) of three volumes in the National Bureau of Asian Research’s annual “Strategic Asia” series. Friedberg’s articles and essays have appeared in a number of publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He served from June 2003 to June 2005 as Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs in the office of the Vice President. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on October 25, 2019.