Policy veterans urging a new course on China – will Biden listen?

When some of America's most experienced former Cabinet officials and politicians warn that the United States and China are on a dangerous path that will be destructive to both sides, it should set pulses racing in the corridors of power. President Biden and Congress seem confident and unperturbed. Yet, in critiques ranging from stark to subtle, from Henry Kissinger, Hank Paulson, William Cohen, Charlene Barshefsky and Jerry Brown, former secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense, a U.S. Trade Representative, and three-time governor of the richest state in America, respectively, are urging a course correction. Are these past architects of U.S….