“Andrew S. Erickson on the ‘Decade of Greatest Danger’,” interviewed by Eyck Freymann, The Wire China, 25 April 2021.
A Q&A With Andrew S. Erickson
Andrew Erickson is a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute and an expert on China’s military. His recent work has focused on China’s “maritime gray zone operations” and how the U.S. should approach the next few years, which he terms “the decade of greatest danger.” In this week’s interview with Eyck Freymann, he talks about why the Biden administration needs to accept some friction and when he thinks calmer seas will arrive.
Andrew Erickson
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Dr. Andrew S. Erickson is a professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI) and a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. He is the author and editor of numerous papers and books on China’s military and security matters in the Indo-Pacific, including the “Studies in Chinese Maritime Development” series. Erickson’s latest publications include the Foreign Affairs
essay, “Competition with China Can Save the Planet,” and Hold The Line through 2035: A Strategy to Offset China’s Revisionist Actions and Sustain a Rules-Based Order in the Asia-Pacific. He also runs the research website China Analysis from Original Sources. What follows is a lightly edited Q&A. Please note, the views expressed are his own and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Navy or any other organization of the U.S. government.
