Bill Drexel (@bill

Bill Drexel

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Bill Drexel

@bill_drexel

🇺🇸🤝🇮🇳 ; tech geopolitics; 🇨🇳 🦅@HudsonInstitute | Former @CNASdc, @UNmigration, @AEI. Views my own, RTs ≠ Endorsements.

Washington, DC

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Joined August 2019

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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Jun 16
The AI labs racing toward superintelligence have a fear with deep theological roots—they just won't call it for what it is. My latest in @PostOpinions argues that admitting the religious shape of the "alignment problem" shouldn't be an embarrassment. It might be the first step
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Aug 20, 2025
"Scuttling 25 years of momentum with the only country that can serve as a counterweight to Chinese dominance in Asia would be a strategic disaster." Delighted to publish with Amb. @NikkiHaley in @Newsweek on the urgency of rebuilding ties with India 🇮🇳🇺🇸
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Oct 12, 2025
On Friday evening, my father-in-law Pastor Ezra Jin was arrested by Chinese government officials, along with more than 20 other pastors and church workers across 7 cities in the most extensive attack on a Chinese church in 4 decades. I have been quiet here mostly because helping
Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio
Oct 12, 2025
The United States condemns the Chinese Communist Party’s recent detention of dozens of leaders of the unregistered Zion Church in China, including prominent pastor Mingri “Ezra” Jin. We call for their immediate release.
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Oct 22, 2025
The Chinese Communist Party arrested my father-in-law, Ezra Jin, on October 10 for his leadership in China’s underground church. It was the most extensive, coordinated attack on a Chinese church in 40 years: within a day, we now know Chinese authorities took nearly 30 pastors
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Aug 13, 2025
“Rupture [with India] would imply that under Mr. Trump, the U.S. is no longer interested in taking seriously its competition with China.” 🎯
Sadanand Dhume
@dhume
Aug 13, 2025
Can the U.S.-India relationship be saved? Yes, if they can craft a deal that both Trump and Modi can sell as a win to their respective bases. [My take ]
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Aug 20, 2025
Replying to @bill_drexel
You can find the full story on @Newsweek. Opener here: In July 1982, President Ronald Reagan welcomed Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to a state dinner at the White House. Toasting the friendship between our "two proud, free peoples," he said: "although our countries may
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
May 30, 2023
We should expect an AI catastrophe from China, where the brewing dangers of AI are on a collision course with authoritarian crisis mismanagement. My latest for @ForeignAffairs with @hannahrkelley 🧵 1/9
China Is Flirting With AI Catastrophe
From foreignaffairs.com
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Oct 22, 2025
Thank you @HudsonInstitute for standing firmly with us, and those persecuted across China, in these troubled times. Honored to work with colleagues with such conviction and moral clarity.
Hudson Institute
@HudsonInstitute
Oct 22, 2025
On October 10, the Chinese Communist Party arrested Zion Church leader Pastor Ezra Jin in one of its largest crackdowns on a church in decades. American leadership is needed to free the unjustly detained church leaders and support those suffering under the CCP's persecution.
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Oct 12, 2025
Replying to @bill_drexel
I also want to thank the many, many friends, family, journalists, and USG officials who have worked so hard to help our family in recent days. It was especially poignant to see @BrianSpegele, who profiled my father-in-law back in 2011, take up his story again, responding
China Detains Prominent Underground Pastor, Drawing Rebuke From U.S.
From wsj.com
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Oct 19, 2025
A huge thank you to @ShannonBream and @FoxNews not only for answering our cold email so quickly, but also for their warm support and genuine concern for the church in China.
Hudson Institute
@HudsonInstitute
Oct 19, 2025
"The crackdown that we've seen last week was the most extensive, singular crackdown on any church in China in the last 40 years." On @FoxNews, Grace Jin Drexel and @bill_drexel discuss the CCP's detention and political imprisonment of Grace's father, Pastor Ezra Jin.
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Oct 17, 2025
Another church elder taken by Chinese authorities today.
Zion Church CN
@CnZion
Oct 17, 2025
Urgent Prayer Letter
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Oct 14, 2025
Sharing the prayer letter of my heroic mother-in-law, Liu Chunli, Pastor Jin's wife. Her strength is, and always has been, extraordinary.
Zion Church CN
@CnZion
Oct 12, 2025
October 12, 2025 Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, peace be with you! I am Liu Chunli, the wife of Pastor Jin Mingri of Beijing Zion Church, and I earnestly ask all our brothers and sisters to pray fervently for him. On October 10, Pastor Jin was handcuffed and taken away
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Jun 20, 2023
I'm biased, but @paul_scharre's new piece in @ForeignPolicy seems to me to give the most comprehensive and readable overview available of the stakes and policy levers around advanced AI development. If you want to get up to speed quickly, read below:
AI’s Gatekeepers Aren’t Prepared for What’s Coming
From foreignpolicy.com
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Bill Drexel
@bill_drexel
Aug 2, 2025
Wise words from @wrmead after an extraordinarily tumultuous week of US-India relations. Goes to show just how much work remains to be done to improve the trajectory of one of this century’s most important bilateral relationships—and the rising stakes of getting it right. Couldn’t
Walter Russell Mead
@wrmead
Aug 1, 2025
For someone like me who admires India’s culture and civilization, marvels at its growing economic power, appreciates its critical importance for the peaceful future of the Indo-Pacific and cares deeply about the US-India relationship, the past week was a shocker. Pakistan,
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