Josh Rogin > Quotes

“The stated goal of the talks was to convince or pressure China to essentially change its entire industrial strategy by changing its laws to accommodate Western ideas of regulatory standards, stopping its bad economic behavior on a range of fronts, and dropping its Made in China 2025 strategy, which was the basis for its innovation expansion and technological approach.”
― Josh Rogin, Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century

“Don’t fall into the trap of trying to “out China China,” he wrote, pointing to Kennan’s warning that “the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.”
― Josh Rogin, Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century

“The Biden campaign didn’t say that their candidate supported the China travel ban until early April.”
― Josh Rogin, Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century

“To think of the China story during the Trump administration as a binary fight between hawks and doves, panda sluggers and panda hug-gers, the blue team and the red team, or any other such construction is too simplistic.”
― Josh Rogin, Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century

“For better or worse, America was rousing itself to confront the great power across the Pacific.”
― Josh Rogin, Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century

“This sense that the world is becoming divided into two separate, competing systems that can’t coexist is hardening into what many people—not without reason—have referred to as a second Cold War.”
― Josh Rogin, Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century

“During the Hong Kong protests in 2019, Apple bent over backward granting Beijing’s demands, including by hiding the Taiwanese flag emoji, removing the news outlet Quartz from the Chinese version of its app store for covering the protests, and removing HKmap.live, an app that protesters were using to organize and avoid police.”
― Josh Rogin, Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century