ISAAC STONE FISH
Isaac Stone Fish is the CEO and founder of Strategy Risks, a business intelligence firm which quantifies corporate exposure to China, and helps companies and entities manage and reduce their China risk. He is the author of America Second (Knopf, 2022), a book about Beijing's influence in the United States. He is also a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, an adjunct at New York University, and the author of a column on China risk for Barron's.
Formerly a Beijing correspondent for Newsweek, Stone Fish spent seven years living in China: He has traveled widely in the region and in the country, visiting every Chinese province, autonomous region, and municipality. He was previously Asia Editor at Foreign Policy Magazine, senior fellow at the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, an on-air contributor to CBS, a contributing columnist to the Washington Post, and an international affairs analyst on PRI's The World.
Stone Fish is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied Chinese literature. He is also a Truman National Security Project fellow, an alumni of the World Economic Forum Global Shaper's program, and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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?
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