Vivek Ramaswamy is campaigning for the 2024 United States presidential election. He filed for his presidential campaign on February 21, 2023. Background Ramaswamy had previously considered a candidacy in the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, but ultimately decided not to run. Since the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections, he had been named as a potential presidential candidate. By early February, it was reported that Ramaswamy had begun assembling a presidential campaign team. If elected, he would become the first Asian American president and the first Indian American president. Political positions According to Ramaswamy, "The most fundamental divide of our time is not black vs white, gay vs straight, or even Democrat vs Republican. It is the Great Reset vs the Great Uprising. Aristocracy vs sovereignty. Self-governance vs monarchy. This is a transpartisan & transnational struggle." In his campaign announcement, Ramaswamy stated "I'm all for putting America First, but in order to put America first, we have to first rediscover what America is. And to me, those are these basic rules of the road that set this nation into motion from meritocracy to free speech, to self-governance over aristocracy. A profile in The New York Times described Ramaswamy as an anti-woke candidate whereas The Hill characterizes him as a conservative. His campaign has also been compared to Andrew Yang's 2020 presidential campaign by media outlets such as Fox News. According to a profile in Politico, Ramaswamy was inspired by Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, and wants to run "with an entrepreneurial spirit, unorthodox ideas, and few expectations" in the hopes of building "a major following that will carry him to the presidency. In his campaign announcement, Ramaswamy pitched himself as a conservative and argued "what the conservative movement needs to do is more than just criticize the poison that fills the void but fill the vacuum with a vision of American national identity that runs so deep that it dilutes these other religions, from wokism to Islamism." Foreign policy China During his campaign announcement, Ramaswamy stated that America needed a “total decoupling” from China. He has described the Chinese government as a "great existential threat" and argues China now represents a more significant threat to the sovereignty of United States than the Soviet Union had during the Cold War as America has found itself in an "economic codependent relationship" with a hostile government. Ramaswamy also