The U.S. can’t use Cold War tactics to engage with China, says former NSA head Michael Rogers

Photo caption:  Navy Adm. Michael Rogers, commander of the US Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of Central Security Services. Yuri Gripas | AFP | Getty Images

Admiral Michael Rogers, former head of the U.S. National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, was instrumental in some of the early intelligence reporting that put Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE on the radar of the intelligence community and Congress. […]

“Fast forward to now: China also represents a significant diplomatic, political and military challenge. But what makes it so different is it combines all of that with this significant economic capability. We have also not had a near-peer economically who is also such a competitor or potential adversary,” in those other ways, Rogers said. […]

Rogers said that China’s sponsorship of its companies puts the country on an uneven playing field with its Western competitors, by centralizing funding and providing a cushion that doesn’t exist for U.S. firms. […]

The U.S. can’t “turn everything into a space-like effort from the 1960s,” he said, but it can prioritize working together on the “core technologies of the digital age,” and create new policies that give companies incentive to develop those technologies, in order to compete better with China. “I think on an even playing field, we will compete very well.”

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