Michael Sobolik

Michael Sobolik is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He specializes in United States–China relations and great power competition with a focus on geopolitics, net assessments, and competitive strategies. He is the author of Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance (Naval Institute Press, 2024). He is also a contributing writer at The Dispatch, a contributing editor at Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy, and an advisory board member at the Vandenberg Coalition.

Prior to joining Hudson, Mr. Sobolik served as a senior fellow in Indo-Pacific studies at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC, where he ran the council’s Indo-Pacific Security Program. He previously served in the United States Senate as a legislative assistant to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).

Mr. Sobolik has offered testimony several times before Congress, including before the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the House Natural Resources Committee. His commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, Foreign Policy, Wired, and The Free Press, among others. He has also appeared on Fox News, ABC, PBS, and other outlets.

Mr. Sobolik earned a master of international affairs from the Bush School of Government and Public Service and a bachelor of science in political science at Texas A&M University. He lives with his wife and son in Alexandria, Virginia.