Rush Doshi

Rush Doshi is the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as director of the China Strategy Initiative at the council. He is also an incoming assistant professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He was deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on the National Security Council from 2021 to 2024. During his tenure, he coordinated U.S. government policy on China and Taiwan, drafted the administration’s China strategy, staffed the president’s and the national security advisor’s meetings with PRC counterparts and was the lead action officer for the negotiations that launched AUKUS, the trilateral security partnership.

He is the author of “The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order” (Oxford University Press, 2021), which won the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award. He was previously a fellow at the Brookings Institution and Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, and he currently serves as an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Doshi received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, focusing on Chinese foreign policy. He was also a Fulbright fellow in China.