Aaron Glasserman
Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania
Aaron Glasserman is a historian of China currently based at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD in History from Columbia University and a BA in Near Eastern Studies with certificates in Chinese and Arabic from Princeton University, and he has previously held research positions at Harvard University, Princeton University, and the Wilson Center. His research and commentary have been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The China Quarterly, and China Brief, among other outlets.
May 08, 2026
Labeling China as part of an “Axis of Chaos” misrepresents its strategy by overstating its alignment with other U.S. adversaries and wrongly implying that it seeks global instability. China’s power and the challenge it poses to the United States instead stem primarily from its deep integration and central role in the global economy, not from fostering chaos or acting as part of a unified anti-U.S. bloc.
