The Chen debacle: AEI scholars: "President Obama should have canceled the China summit"
Dan Blumenthal, Michael Auslin, Michael Mazza
May 04, 2012

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Former Pentagon official and American Enterprise Institute scholar Daniel Blumenthal writes that the Obama administration should have cancelled the summit as soon as it learned that China was going back on its word – that is, until Chen and his family could go back to the embassy and get out of China. As the Chen Guangcheng saga gets stranger and stranger, and becomes -- as AEI Asia expert Michael Auslin writes -- a major diplomatic embarrassment for the United States, the following AEI foreign and defense experts are available to comment:

  • Daniel Blumenthal formerly worked on China in the Defense Department's policy shop. He is also a commissioner and former vice chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Blumenthal can be reached at dblumenthal@aei.org or through his assistant lara.crouch@aei.org (202.862.7160)
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  • Michael Auslin, a resident scholar specializing in Asian security issues, taught history at Yale University prior to joining AEI. Auslin can be reached at michael.auslin@aei.org or through his assistant lara.crouch@aei.org (202.862.7160)
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  • Michael Mazza is a senior research associate who studies defense and security policy in the Asia-Pacific region. He writes frequently on American strategy in Asia and Chinese domestic politics. Mazza can be reached at michael.mazza@aei.org (202.253.0158)

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Dan
Blumenthal

  • Dan Blumenthal is the director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on East Asian security issues and Sino-American relations.  Mr. Blumenthal has both served in and advised the U.S. government on China issues for over a decade.  From 2001 to 2004, he served as senior director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia at the Department of Defense.  Additionally, he served as a commissioner on the congressionally-mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission since 2006-2012, and held the position of vice chairman in 2007.  He has also served on the Academic Advisory Board of the congressional U.S.-China Working Group. Mr. Blumenthal is the co-author of "An Awkward Embrace: The United States and China in the 21st Century" (AEI Press, November 2012).


  • Phone: 202-862-5861
    Email: dblumenthal@aei.org

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    Name: Lara Crouch
    Phone: 202-862-7160
    Email: lara.crouch@aei.org
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Michael
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  • Currently the program manager for AEI's annual Executive Program on National Security Policy and Strategy, Michael Mazza has studied and lived in China. At AEI, Mr. Mazza studies defense policy in the Asia-Pacific, as well as Chinese military modernization, cross-Strait relations, and security on the Korean peninsula. He also writes regularly for AEI's Center for Defense Studies blog. In his previous capacity as a research assistant in AEI's Foreign and Defense Policy Studies department, Mr. Mazza contributed to studies on American strategy in Asia and on Taiwanese defense strategy. He is a 2010-2011 Foreign Policy Initiative Future Leader.
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    Email: michael.mazza@aei.org
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