ISAAC STONE FISH
Isaac Stone Fish is the CEO and founder of Strategy Risks, a data and research company that helps companies and regulators understand and reduce alternative forms of risk, including those involving China. Isaac lived in China for seven years, speaks fluent Mandarin, and has visited every Chinese province, special autonomous region, and municipality. His book, America Second: How America’s Elites Are Making China Stronger, on the Communist Party of China’s influence in America – and how to ethically and responsibly push back – was published in February 2022 by Knopf.
Isaac is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Truman National Security Project fellow. He is also an on-air contributor on CBS News, a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a columnist on China risk at Barron’s. Previously, Isaac served as a senior fellow at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, as Foreign Policy magazine’s Asia Editor, a Beijing correspondent for Newsweek, and an international affairs analyst for PRI’s The World. He is also an adjunct professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs.
His views on global affairs and economic risk have also been quoted in most major English-language news outlets, as well as Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, German, French, and Vietnamese media. He has also had articles published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Politico, and Time, amongst many others.
America Second : By Isaac Stone Fish
How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger.
A timely, provocative exposé of American political and business leadership’s deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing—at a profound and often hidden cost to U.S. interests.
The past few years have seen relations between China and the United States shift, from enthusiastic economic partners, to wary frenemies, to open rivals. Americans have been slow to wake up to the challenges posed by the Chinese Communist Party. Why did this happen? And what can we do about it?
RECENT MEDIA
Bloomberg
HSBC’s China Game Plan Clashes with Rising Political Risks, October 10, 2023
PPAI
Promo Leaders Still Traveling to China Amid Safety Concerns, October 9, 2023
The Dynamist
Do American Elites Make China Stronger, August 29, 2023
CNBC
Biden caught between Main Street, Wall Street & Republicans when it comes to China, August 9, 2023
Real Clear Politics
China Commission to MLB, U.S. Firms: Stop Subsidizing China’s Abuses, July 12, 2023
Forbes
Vietnam Bans ‘Barbie’ Over ‘Illegal’ China Map - It’s no Child’s Play, July 5, 2023
The Japan Times
Dysfunction and dissonance define U.S. - China Relations, June 21, 2023
The New York Times
As Ties to China Turn Toxic, Even Chinese Companies Are Breaking them, June 15, 2023
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