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EPISODE · Feb 19, 2025 · 24 MIN

Understanding China's 'Upstart' Strategy

from World Class · host Michael McFaul, Oriana Skylar Mastro

Oriana Skylar Mastro is a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, where her research focuses on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. She is also a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She also serves in the United States Air Force Reserve, where she currently works at the Pentagon as Deputy Director of Reserve Global China Strategy. Her latest book, Upstart: How China Became a Great Power, is available from Oxford University Press, and many major book retailers. If you like what you hear, you can get additional content from scholars at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies by following us on X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, and by subscribing to our newsletters and updates.

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China is rapidly gaining influence and power on the global stage, and if the United States wants to stay ahead, Oriana Skylar Mastro says we need to fundamentally rethink our understanding of how Beijing is competing and the strategies America can use to counter an "upstart" great power.

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