@bequelin.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center. Power Shifts in International Relations and what they mean for rights protection. Formerly Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, All things Asia.
@bequelin.bsky.socialThere is a reason why Trump's nickname in China is 川建国同志, "Comrade Build-the-Nation" (a Chinese agent secretly sabotaging the US from the inside) and is credited with being "the best thing that happened to Chinese science".
His policies have made China stronger.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/c...
@bequelin.bsky.social⚠️China, Not Iran, Is Trump’s Real Foreign-Policy Debacle.
In @foreignpolicy.com I argue with my co-author @yaqiu.bsky.social that, under the Trump administration's first 19 months, China has gained ground across almost every dimension of its rivalry with the U.S.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/c...