What are the objectives of China’s foreign and security policies under Xi Jinping?  

What is the role of Australia and other middle powers in responding to Chinese actions in the Indo-Pacific?  

Are the United States’ China policies set to change with future shifts in the international order?   

In this episode, Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Dan Blumenthal join David Andrews to discuss the drivers of the China and the United States’ security policies, the role of China in the international order, middle powers, and deterrence.  

Sheena Chestnut Greitens is an Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a Visiting Associate Research Professor of Indo-Pacific Security at the United States Army War College.  

Dan Blumenthal is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on East Asian security in Sino-American relations, and a Distinguished Visting Professor at the US Naval War College.  

David Andrews is a Senior Policy Advisor at the ANU National Security College.  

Show notes  

• ANU National Security College academic programs: find out more 
• Playing both sides of the US-Chinese rivalry by Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Isaac Kardon 
• From Coercion to Capitulation, How China Can take Taiwan Without a War by Dan Blumenthal et al 

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