Danny Russel quoted in The New York Times article, “Xi’s Gambit: China Plans for a World Without American Technology”
“China is freeing up tens of billions of dollars for its tech industry to borrow. It is cataloging the sectors where the United States or others could cut off access to crucial technologies. And when its leaders released their most important economic plans last week, they laid out their ambitions
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The Wall Street Journal article, “China’s Message to America: We’re an Equal Now”
“China retaliated against the EU sanctions by blacklisting European lawmakers and think tanks, although that might make the EU parliament’s ratification of a pending investment treaty with China more difficult. “‘It’s a high-stakes gamble for the Chinese,’ says Daniel Russel, a former Obama China official, now a vice president at
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The Washington Post article, “Kerry Expected to Travel to China in First Visit by Top Biden Official”
“Following the contentious meeting between U.S. and Chinese officials in Anchorage in March, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported that the two sides had decided to set up a working group on climate change among other modest but specific joint initiatives. But U.S. officials told The Washington Post that no
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The Economist article, “China Thinks It Can Avoid Middle Eastern Traps That Caught America”
“Some Chinese experts talk of America leaving a vacuum in the Middle East. Danny Russel, America’s assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in 2013-17, agrees that China senses a demand for a Chinese presence in the Middle East, amid talk of American unreliability. Chinese companies have
Read MoreDanny Russel interviewed in The Diplomat, “Danny Russel on US Asia Policy Under Biden”
“The Biden administration has placed the Indo-Pacific front and center during the past two months. From the virtual Quad summit – bringing together the leaders of Australia, Japan, India, and the U.S. for the first time – earlier this month to the overseas trips by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and
Read MoreDanny Russel interviewed in NPR The World: Latest Edition: “Public Health Experts Push to End an Unfair Border Policy”
“H&M faces calls for a boycott in China after the company spoke out about Uyghur human rights abuses and concerns over forced labor in the production of cotton in Xinjiang province.” This NPR The World: Latest Edition episode features Danny Russel, whose interview begins at the 28:30 mark. Listen to the full interview here:
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in Nikkei article, “China Marks 120-Year Comeback With Fireworks in Alaska”
“The Asia Society’s Daniel Russel praised the Biden administration’s strategy for meeting allies first and creating a position of strength before sitting down with the Chinese. ‘The U.S. is not willing to stay quiet about behavior by China that threatens regional stability, or that violates global norms, in exchange for
Read MoreDanny Russel interviewed in BBC Newshour: “Angry Start to US-China Talks”
“The first high-level talks between China and the new US administration have had a bumpy start – as both sides publicly rebuked one another. We get reaction and analysis from both countries.” This BBC Newshour segment features Danny Russel, whose interview begins at the 2:00 mark. Watch the full interview here: Full
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The Washington Post article, “Biden Administration Begins First Faceoff With China Amid Worsening Relations”
“‘Among the factors that drive the administration’s messaging is not wanting to expose a flank and invite criticism of being appeasing to Beijing,’ said Danny Russel, a vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute and a former career diplomat. ‘They are disabusing people of the expectation that this is
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The Wall Street Journal article, “Hitting Nerve With Kim Jong Un Regime Takes Just a Few Words”
“When nuclear talks with Washington and Pyongyang unfolded in the early 1990s, U.S. negotiators saw the language of reciprocity as a mild concession to a small, yet proud country that sought more equal terms in any deal, said Daniel Russel, the former top State Department official for Asia during the
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