Michael H. Fuchs
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America Doesn’t Need a Grand Strategy
Searching for the next holy grail of foreign policy is stopping the United States from solving the world’s most pressing problems. → Read More
China Is Violating Uighurs’ Human Rights. The United States Must Act.
The Chinese Communist Party is carrying out a methodical campaign of oppression in an apparent attempt to extinguish the religion and ethnicity of the Uighur people. Residing mostly in what the Chinese state calls its Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Uighurs today are not free in the most fundamental sense of the word—not to travel, not to practice their faith, not to speak with their… → Read More
Don’t Overestimate the Power of Historic Summits –
The potential for progress on the Korean Peninsula is real, but the pitfalls are plentiful. → Read More
If Trump Forgets About Human Rights in Asia, the World Will Suffer
The United States ignores massive abuses at its own peril. → Read More
The Ethnic Cleansing of the Rohingya Could Be the New Myanmar’s Original Sin
Any future success will be built on the blood of the Rohingya. → Read More
-Tearline- August 17, 2017
In this week's Tearline: Trump sympathizes with white supremacists after a terrorist attack in Charlottesville and effectively sews alarm at home as well as abroad in Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, and China with increasingly inflammatory rhetoric. → Read More
Cutting To the Bone of American Leadership
The recent resignation of David Rank, a 27-year career Foreign Service officer who was serving as acting U.S. Ambassador to China, is → Read More
Michael H. Fuchs
Michael H. Fuchs is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was most recently Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. → Read More
May 4, 2017 - Center for American Progress Action
In this week’s Tearline: Trump befriends authoritarian leaders around the globe, Tillerson misses meetings, and France gets ready to go to the polls. → Read More
How Not to Lose Asia to China
There's a hunger in the Pacific for U.S. involvement. And it's good for America, too. → Read More
Trump Blew It at His China Summit
Trump Blew It at His China Summit By Michael H. Fuchs April 12, 2017 President Trump’s decision to launch a missile strike against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad diverted the world’s attention from the much-anticipated first summit meeting between Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping. But back at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump was giving President Xi exactly what Xi wanted – photo ops, smiles,… → Read More
- Tearline - April 6, 2017
Tearline noun | \’ter ï lin\ The portions of an intelligence report that provide the substance of a more highly classified or controlled report without identifying sensitive sources, methods, or other operational information. View past issues here. Think your friends might be interested? They can subscribe here. What was that?! President Donald Trump is hosting … → Read More
Trump’s Meeting with China’s Xi Is Risky with U.S. Asia Policy Up in the Air
“Everything is under negotiation, including One China.” Those words, said by president-elect Donald Trump in January as he → Read More
- Tearline - March 30, 2017
Tearline noun | \’ter • līn\ The portions of an intelligence report that provide the substance of a more highly classified or controlled report without identifying sensitive sources, methods, or other operational information. View past issues here. Think your friends might be interested? They can subscribe here. What was that?! Over the weekend, the Russian … → Read More
The Deconstruction of America’s Global Leadership
Stephen Bannon, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, has made it clear that the Trump administration wants to see the → Read More
- Tearline - March 16, 2017
Tearline noun | \’ter • līn\ The portions of an intelligence report that provide the substance of a more highly classified or controlled report without identifying sensitive sources, methods, or other operational information. – Think your friends might be interest? They can subscribe here. – What was that?! Former Vice President Joe Biden is fond … → Read More
Introducing Tearline - Center for American Progress Action
Tearline noun | \’ter • līn\ The portions of an intelligence report that provide the substance of a more highly classified or controlled report without identifying sensitive sources, methods, or other operational information. → Read More
Is the State Department Being Intentionally Gutted?
Amidst the public speculation of a State Department possibly in disarray, I know that officers at State are still hard at work. One example: I → Read More
Did Trump’s Team Just Threaten War With China?
Rex Tillerson said the U.S. should threaten to keep China from its new man-made islands. That requires a naval blockade. And that is war. → Read More
Did Trump’s Team Just Threaten War With China?
Did Trump’s Team Just Threaten War With China? By Michael H. Fuchs January 17, 2017 The incoming Trump administration just drew a red line in the South China Sea that it cannot enforce without going to war with China. When questioned on the Trump administration’s stance on the South China Sea during his confirmation hearing, Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson said that, “We’re going to… → Read More