Rush Doshi

Background

About Rush Doshi

Rush Doshi is the C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is also an assistant professor in the Security Studies Program in Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Prior to these roles, Doshi was deputy senior director for China and Taiwan on the Biden National Security Council (NSC), where he served from 2021 to 2024 and helped manage the NSC's first China directorate. During his tenure, Doshi coordinated U.S. government policy on China and Taiwan, drafted the administration’s China strategy, staffed the President and National Security Advisor’s meetings with PRC counterparts including the Bali and Woodside summits, and was the lead action officer for the negotiations that launched AUKUS. He is the author of The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Oxford University Press, 2021), which won the Mershon Center’s Edgar S. Furniss book award, was a finalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award and the Lionel Gelber Prize, and was named a Financial Times “best book." He is the editor of Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World (Brookings University Press, 2021). Doshi was previously a fellow at the Brookings Institution and Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center and currently serves as an officer in the US Navy Reserve. He has testified before multiple Congressional committees, and his work has appeared in International Organization, Asia Policy, The Washington Quarterly, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs, among other outlets. Doshi received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and his PhD from Harvard University focusing on Chinese foreign policy. He was also a Fulbright fellow in China.