On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, Dr. Lyle Goldstein returns to the show to discuss the Trump-Xi summit, Washington's China policy, and his new co-authored book on Russia-China maritime cooperation and its implications for U.S. grand strategy (The New Cold War at Sea: Maritime Implications of the China-Russia Quasi-Alliance - available now at https://www.amazon.com/New-Cold-War-Sea-Quasi-Alliance/dp/1682479943). Dr. Goldstein is the Director of the Asia Program at Defense Priorities, as well as Director of the China Initiative at the Brown University Watson Institute. He is the founder of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the Naval War College.

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