Ryan Hass is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he is Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. He served as Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia at the National Security Council from 2013 to 2017.
Last Updated: April 28, 2025
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01.10.18
Trump on China in 2018: Lover or Hater?
On December 28, 2017, Donald Trump told The New York Times “I like very much” China’s Communist Party Secretary Xi Jinping, adding, “He treated me better than anybody’s ever been treated in the history of China.” In the same interview, Trump also...
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08.10.17
Should China Support the U.S. in a War with North Korea?
On August 9, U.S. President Donald Trump warned North Korea that if it does not stop threatening the United States, it will be “met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.” Just hours later, the...