Michael Sobolik is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute where he specializes in United States–China relations and great power competition with a focus on geopolitics, net assessments, and competitive strategies. He is also the author of Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance (Naval Institute Press, 2024), as well as a contributing editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy. Mr. Sobolik was previously a senior fellow in Indo-Pacific studies at the American Foreign Policy Council, as well as a legislative assistant to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in the United States Senate.