Matt Pottinger Archives

June 23, 2023

Getting Strategic Deprioritization Right

The Marathon Initiative | Project prepared for the Office of Net Assessment, United States Department of Defense. Published with approval from the Office of Net Assessment.…......
October 19, 2021

Beijing’s Grand Strategy

Council on Foreign Relations | Matt Pottinger, senior advisor at the Marathon Initiative and chairman of the China Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss China’s ambitions and what they mean for the United States....
August 23, 2021

Beijing’s American Hustle

Foreign Affairs | Although many Americans were slow to realize it, Beijing’s enmity for Washington began long before U.S. President Donald Trump’s election in 2016 and even prior to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s rise to power in 2012. .....