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Oren Cass, founder of the Washington-based think tank American Compass, has built a reputation as one of the right’s most outspoken advocates for economic nationalism and “strategic decoupling” from Beijing.

Yet recent details about the group’s corporate partnerships and staff affiliations raise questions about consistency between its rhetoric and its operations.

In essays and media appearances, Cass has argued that the United States must take a tougher stance toward China and prioritize domestic manufacturing and independence from Chinese supply chains.

In a 2023 Foreign Affairs essay, Cass and a colleague warned that the U.S. “must break from China or else become irrevocably corrupted by it,” arguing that economic interdependence had alread

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