What Emma Ashford thinks about China
American foreign-policy scholar, senior fellow at the Stimson Center and a columnist for Foreign Policy; author of First Among Equals (2025) and Oil, the State, and War (2022), and writer of the newsletter What Is To Be Done?
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1 dated position, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Emma Ashford has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIt should go without saying that we don’t want a major war with China. The costs would be immense, even if it didn’t go nuclear, and there’s absolutely no guarantee that the United States would win the conflict.