Ryan Hass

RYAN HASS is Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He was China Director at the National Security Council from 2013 to 2017 and served in the U.S. embassy in Beijing from 2008 to 2012. He is the author of Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence (Yale University Press, 2021), from which this essay is adapted.