Danny Russel interviewed on NHK World, “US-Asia Relations under Biden”
“When Joe Biden becomes US president in January, relations with Asia may have a different tone. Daniel Russel of the Asia Society Policy Institute tells NHK World that the new administration will likely emphasize a more ‘coherent and consistent’ approach to security and diplomacy…” Watch the full interview here: Full
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The Wall Street Journal article, “Biden, as President, Will Shift U.S. Toolkit on China”
“‘These are two things that Biden and the Biden people are talking about—the first is the outreach to allies and partners and like-minded states—democracies,’ said Daniel Russel, former Asia diplomat in the Obama-Biden administration, now at the Asia Society Policy Institute think tank. ‘Secondly is ensuring our policy and strategy
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in Kyodo News article, “Focus: Biden Eyes Undoing Trump’s Legacy of Reduced U.S. Role, Fraying Ties”
“‘The United States just has so much less credibility and respect in Northeast Asia than in any other time in our modern history,’ Daniel Russel, a former U.S. senior diplomat for East Asia, said during a webinar hosted by the Korea Society based in New York…” Read the full article
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald article, “Why Trump Has Become China’s Enemy … with Benefits”
“‘Donald Trump has inflicted pain on the Chinese,’ says Danny Russel, who was a top official on China policy in the White House and the State Department in the last Democrat administration. “‘He’s created problems for them with tariff upon tariff, he’s embarrassed them and infuriated them,’ Russel tells me.
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in CNN article, “How China’s Xi Jinping Blew A Golden Opportunity with US President Donald Trump”
“‘At the same time that Xi was hypocritically claiming to be the grand defender of the global system, Trump was attacking it viciously and putting forward a very nationalist jingoistic message. So that magnified the contrasts and widened the gap,’ said [Danny] Russel, who is now vice president of international
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in Stars and Stripes article, “North Korea Poised to Test Next US President with Growing Nuclear Missile Threat”
“‘The North Koreans are perhaps more inclined to teach a lesson and to housebreak a new Biden administration than they are to throw a monkey wrench into what’s already a kind of wild and crazy U.S. election,’ Daniel Russel, former assistant secretary of state for the region, said during a
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in Nikkei article, “What Would A Biden Presidency Mean for Asia?”
“Daniel Russel, assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific under Obama, said Biden would take steps to avoid military escalation resulting from miscommunication. “But ‘the crux of the difference if Joe Biden were elected president would be that we would have a president who set the policy,’ said
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The Washington Post article, “Trump Promised to Bring China to Heel. He Didn’t and the Result Is A Pitched Conflict Between the World’s Two Major Powers.”
“‘We treated China like an enemy, we named them an enemy and we’re getting what we asked for,’ said Daniel Russel, an Asia Society expert who was a high-ranking foreign policy aide in the Obama administration. Xi is facing his own domestic pressures, Russel added, ‘but what I don’t see
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in Times of India article, “What Could Happen If China Invaded Taiwan”
“‘Beijing’s strategy isn’t just based on undermining Taiwan’s resistance, it’s also a gamble on how the US will approach the cross-strait issue,’ Daniel Russel, a former top State Department official under President Barack Obama, said in Taipei on Sept. 8. ‘The strongest driver of increased Chinese assertiveness is the conviction
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in South China Morning Post article, “Does China’s One-Party System Blind It to Why It’s a US Election Issue?”
“‘The Chinese have told themselves a story about why American attitudes have soured towards China,’ said Daniel Russel, a former assistant secretary of state who advised the then President Barack Obama on East Asia issues. ‘And in the story they tell themselves, it’s a function of things that have nothing
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