Manoj Kewalramani quoted in NPR on U.S.-China Tensions

Manoj Kewalramani, chair of Indo-Pacific Studies and a fellow at Takshashila Institution, was quoted in NPR. He was quoted as saying:

Manoj Kewalramani, with the Takshashila Institution in India, follows the language of China's leaders and propaganda closely. He said the explicit naming of America by Xi was a signal of the level of unhappiness.

"It's like when you're angry with your spouse, or your kid, you start middle-naming them, you know?" he said.

Kewalramani said the balloon crisis angered Chinese officials and may have been the trigger for this shift. Still, he did not think China's policy toward the U.S. would change substantively.

Read the report here.