Rush Doshi

Rush Doshi is the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also an assistant professor at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. His expertise includes China’s foreign policy, U.S. strategy toward China, cross-strait issues and Indo-Pacific security. Before joining the Council on Foreign Relations, Doshi was deputy senior director for China and Taiwan at the National Security Council, where he served from 2021 to 2024, helping manage the council’s first China directorate. During his tenure, Doshi coordinated U.S. government policy on China and Taiwan, drafted the administration’s China strategy and negotiated with PRC counterparts. He is the author of “The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order.” Doshi received his bachelor’s degree in public policy from Princeton University and his Ph.D., focusing on Chinese foreign policy, from Harvard University.