As the former CEO of the Center for a New American Security and her affiliation with Brookings and academia, Amb. Nuland has written extensively on geopolitics and global security. Although her work and writings tend to focus more on Russia and Europe, she has indicated her position on China relatively frequently. Just as she is considered a hawk on Russia, so too is she hawkish on China. In essence, she views both Russia and China as strategic and ideological threats to the United States and the current global order. She has suggested in a recent commentary that NATO has a role to play in addressing the new challenges that China, in addition to Russia, poses to many of its member states. 

In a report she published for the Harvard Kennedy School with several other academics on the 8 most critical areas that the transatlantic community must work together on, her positions on China related to economics, technology, security, and human rights are made clear. As she and her co-authors write in the executive summary:

• The transatlantic nations should join forces with Japan and other democracies to present a united front in trade negotiations with China and at the WTO.
• We should harden our security against a predatory China by strengthening and harmonizing investment screening mechanisms, instituting targeted export controls to protect critical infrastructure and technologies, including barring Huawei from our 5G networks, and increasing intelligence sharing.
• We should oppose China’s illegal grab for power and territory in the South and East China Sea region at the United Nations and urge stronger legal measures in international courts.
• We should condemn and sanction China’s massive violations of human rights and freedom in Hong Kong, against the Uighur population and elsewhere.