Danny Russel quoted in the Japan Times article, “In A Second Trump Term, Tokyo Would Need to Bolster Ties Elsewhere”
“Daniel Russel, a former assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific who’s now vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute, said that a continuation of the Trump White House ‘means that Japan is going to be put through the wringer to extract as much money as …
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in the Japan Times article, “Trump Re-Election Could Calm China Ties — Or Burn Them Down”
“Daniel Russel, a former assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific who’s now vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute, said the ‘series of very aggressive, very confrontational actions and … hostile rhetoric’ on China may be aimed at the November election, ‘but it’s going to …
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in the Los Angeles Times article, “North Korea Was Trump’s Chief Foreign Policy Boast, But Things Got Worse on His Watch”
“‘The approach that Biden supported was more along the lines of a war of attrition with North Korea,’ Russel said. ‘If giving up its nuclear program is the last thing on earth that North Korea wants to do, we need to make it the last thing on earth that North …
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in the Japan Times article, “Would Joe Biden Be ‘Obama 2.0’ When It Comes to Northeast Asia?”
“‘Biden’s top priority is going to be trying to resuscitate the U.S. economy, trying to restore as much American leadership, American primacy as he possibly can,’ said Russel. ‘Those are tall orders and to try to address the havoc wreaked by the uncontrolled outbreak of COVID-19, you’ve got a lot …
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in the Los Angeles Times article, “Why Biden might follow Trump’s hardline policy on China”
“‘The China that will face Joe Biden in January of 2021 is vastly more powerful and more formidable as an adversary than the China that he and Obama dealt with up until the end of 2016,’ said Daniel Russel, a top Asian affairs official in the Obama administration and now …
Read MoreDanny Russel and Ely Ratner quoted in Los Angeles Times article, “As Trump Attacks Biden On China, He’s Playing A Weak Hand”
“Ely Ratner, a former Biden advisor now at the Center for a New American Security, co-wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2018, ‘Nearly half a century since Nixon’s first steps toward rapprochement, the record is increasingly clear that Washington once again put too much faith in its power to shape China’s …
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in Reuters article, “Ahead of U.S. Election, China Braces for Rocky Ride, Potential Change”
“‘The Chinese seem to be under no illusions that a Biden victory would reverse Washington’s view of China, but will likely make an overture for dialogue with a new administration,’ said Daniel Russel, the top diplomat for East Asia under President Barack Obama and early in the Trump administration. “Russel …
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in CNN article, “U.S. Move to Shut China’s Houston Consulate Draws Questions About Political Motives”
“Former officials were perplexed. Danny Russel, the former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs who left the department in 2017, said that when he was at State and the National Security Council, ‘the Chinese consulate in Houston did not have a particular reputation as an acute …
Read MoreDanny Russel interviewed on CNBC’s Squawk Box Asia
“China will inevitably retaliate over the United States’ ordered closure of the mainland’s Houston consulate, adding to ‘escalating tit-for-tat’ bilateral tensions, says Daniel Russel, vice president for international security and diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute…” Watch the full interview here: Full Interview
Read MoreDanny Russel quoted in The New York Times article, “U.S. Orders China to Close Houston Consulate, Citing Efforts to Steal Trade Secrets”
“Daniel Russel, who served in Mr. Stilwell’s job during the Obama administration, said closing the Houston consulate ‘further reduces the few remaining diplomatic channels between the two sides and is a step that will prove difficult to reverse.’ “’The China accusation that this move has more to do with presidential …
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