Richard C. Bush

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Richard C. Bush

Richard C. Bush III is an American expert on China affairs. Since 2002, he has served as the director of Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) of the Brookings Institution, and concurrently as the inaugural Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies.[1][2] Bush is also a senior fellow of foreign policy.

Education[]

Richard Bush received his undergraduate education at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He did his graduate work in political science at Columbia University, getting an M.A. in 1973 and his Ph.D. in 1978. His thesis in political science concentrated on studies about China-Taiwan relations, U.S.-China relations, the Korean peninsula and Japan's security.[3]

Career[]

Richard Bush began his career in 1977 with the China Council of The Asia Society. In 1983 he became a staff consultant on the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs. In 1993 he moved up to the full committee, where he worked on Asia issues and served as liaison with Democratic members. In 1995, he became national intelligence officer for East Asia and a member of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), which coordinates the analytic work of the intelligence community. He left the NIC in 1997 to become head of the American Institute in Taiwan. He has served in the executive and legislative branches of U. S. government for 19 years, including those of National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and Chairman of the board of the American Institute in Taiwan (1997-2002), and is still active in observing international affairs in East Asia.[4][5]

Publications[]

He published At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations since 1942 in 2004, Untying the Knot in 2006, A War Like No Other: The Truth About China's Challenge to America in 2007, and The Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations in 2010.[6] His latest work, Hong Kong in the Shadow of China: Living With the Leviathan was published in 2016.

Bibliography[]

  • Bush, Richard C. (2004). At Cross Purposes: U.S. - Taiwan Relations Since 1942. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 0-7656-1372-7. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  • Bush, Richard C. (2005). Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. ISBN 978-0-8157-1288-6. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  • Bush, Richard C.; O'Hanlon, Michael (2007). A War Like No Other: The Truth About China's Challenge to America. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-98677-5. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  • Bush, Richard C. (2010). The Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. ISBN 978-0-8157-0474-4. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  • Bush, Richard C. (2013). Uncharted Strait: The Future of China-Taiwan Relations. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. ISBN 978-0-8157-2384-4. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  • Bush, Richard C. (2017). One China Policy Primer. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. Retrieved 3 March 2017.

References[]

  1. ^ "Brookings Establishes Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies". Brookings Institution. 21 May 2002. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  2. ^ "CNAPS Director Richard Bush Awarded Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies". Brookings Institution. 19 November 2002. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Richard C. Bush - Brookings Institution". 23 June 2016.
  4. ^ Taiwan and East Asian Security - Foreign Policy Research Institute
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-11-02. Retrieved 2013-10-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Strobe Talbott, Forward Untying the Knot" the Brookings Institution (2006)

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