“There's a national ambition, a collective, in a sense, political ambition, which I think is the thing we see from far away. That's the fact that China's building roads and airports and extending its reaches out into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and in a way that's putting it into some tension with its neighbors.”

American journalist and author

Evan Lionel Richard Osnos is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, and is known for reporting on politics and foreign affairs, especially in the United States and China. Since 2016, he has also written about the world’s wealthiest individuals. His 2014 book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, won the National Book Award for nonfiction.