Ryan Hass

United States diplomat, scholar

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Trump’s offer to sell weapons to China will be unsettling to American partners at the pointy edge of China’s spear,
If there was any ambiguity about whether President Trump views China as a security threat, this disclosure by @USAmbChina Perdue puts the question to rest,
  • Ryan Hass, a former career diplomat and White House national security official who is director of the China center at the Brookings Institution, wrote on social media
    The New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/09…
Both sides are going to be managing for small gains and conflict avoidance, and that is going to be sort of the spirit through which both leaders approach this conversation,
I think that keeping things where they are now, with the arms sales pushed off, would count as a win for Beijing,
China is presenting itself to the world as the stable counterweight to an erratic and violent United States,
  • said Ryan Hass, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution think tank
    CNBCcnbc.com/2026/09…
If there's ever a proposal that requires Chinese buy-in, the last person on earth that would be a good salesman is Dario Amodei,

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