H. R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute and a lecturer in the Graduate School of Business. Previously, he was national security advisor to President Trump. A retired US Army lieutenant general, McMaster is author of Battlegrounds and Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and The Lies that Led to Vietnam. He is the Japan chair at the Hudson Institute and chairman of the Center for Political and Military Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy. McMaster hosts the podcast “Battlegrounds: International Perspectives on Crucial Challenges to Security and Prosperity.”
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The US approach to China, H. R. McMaster argues, has long been based on the faulty assumption that China will “play by the rules” once integrated into the international politi...