Elizabeth Economy

Elizabeth Economy is the Hargrove Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Program on the US, China, and the World at the Hoover Institution. She is a China policy expert, author, and host of Hoover’s China Considered podcast; she previously served as senior advisor for China at the U.S. Department of Commerce and as C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

U.S. China Policy Needs a Unified Economic Statecraft Command

Elizabeth Economy’s conversation with Randy Schriver and Mike Kuiken of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission argues that Washington’s China problem now cuts across trade, technology, supply chains, cyber operations, Taiwan planning, pharmaceuticals, and sanctions policy. Schriver and Kuiken say the US government still manages many of those risks through agencies and laws built for an earlier era, leaving economic statecraft fragmented just as China’s leverage has become more integrated. Their case is less for severing all economic ties than for building the machinery to decide which ties are tolerable, which are dangerous, and which require national effort to replace.

Hoover InstitutionMay 7, 202621 min read