Now, at the same time, I was certainly aware, and President Obama was certainly aware, like all of us, including Secretary Clinton, that China was posing greater and greater challenges to U.S.
Frankly, I’m sure there were people out on the fringes, but by and large, that did not seem like the time to focus on the next great geo-strategic rival. I didn’t encounter many people who disagreed with that. So if you add up these global issues, these regional issues and the overwhelming economic crisis, that was a foundation for a China policy that looked to work with China and gain Chinese support for things that we were doing to the maximum degree possible. Tim Geithner and President Obama had the same perspective.
Hank Paulson had treated China as a major element in trying to stabilize the economy, beginning in September 2008. And China was, at the time, contributing about 35 percent of the growth to the global economy, and it was moving up towards becoming the number two economy in the world fairly rapidly. We were four months into the Great Recession.
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Thornton China CenterĪdditionally, we were in a free fall economically. Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. That meant issues like the North Korean nuclear program, the Iranian nuclear program and climate change - which was very much on President Obama’s mind. There were problems that we thought couldn’t be adequately addressed without China’s participation and support. That framework involved treating China seriously as a major international actor with influence on regional issues and also transnational issues of deep concern to us. Q: Can we begin with how U.S.-China relations looked after you joined the Obama administration in January 2009, as senior director for East Asian Affairs on the National Security Council?Ī: When President Obama came into office in 2009 - and I started after his inauguration - we were, for the most part, inheriting a general framework for dealing with China that went back decades. The Wire China spoke to Bader about America’s deteriorating relationship with China, and prospects for U.S.-China policy under the Biden administration. He is also the author of Obama and China’s Rise: An Insider’s Account of America’s Asia Strategy. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. Today, he a senior fellow with the John L. Trade Representative, helping to negotiate the accession of China to the World Trade Organization in 2001. State Department in 1977 as a staff assistant to Richard Holbrooke and worked as an assistant U.S. Bader, who served as senior director for East Asian affairs on the National Security Council in the early years of the Obama administration, has spent much of his career in public service.
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