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Gabriel Noronha joined JINSA in June 2022 as a fellow in the Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy. From 2019 to 2021, he served as Special Advisor for the Iran Action Group at the U.S. Department of State, where he coordinated policy and directed the State Department’s communications and congressional affairs for Iran. From 2017-2019, he worked as the Special Assistant for the Senate Armed Ser...

Dmitri Alperovitch is an American think-tank founder, investor, philanthropist, podcast host and former computer security industry executive. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Anders Corr is the publisher of the Journal of Political Risk. In addition to visiting all South China Sea claimant countries, he has undertaken field research in Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Brunei. Dr. Corr conducted analysis for USPACOM, CENTCOM, EUCOM, SOCPAC, and NATO. His latest book is The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy & Hegemony . Watch Full-Length Interv...

Meg Rithmire is the F. Warren MacFarlan associate professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her first book, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), examine...

Jacob Feldgoise is a Data Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. His work explores U.S.-China technology competition, China’s foreign influence, and emerging technologies talent flows. Previously, Jacob worked for the U.S. House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.  Hanna Dohmen is a Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for S...

Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew has worked at senior levels in the U.S. Congress, serving as a long-time counsel, legislative director, and chief of staff to then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She was a professional staff member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and also served as a legislative assistant to then U.S. Representative Bill Richardson. Alex Wong is a senior fellow at...

Bryan Burack is a Senior Policy Advisor for China and the Indo-Pacific in The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center.  Burack’s work focuses on China and threats to U.S. national security, U.S. foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific region, and supporting federal and state legislative efforts in these areas, including crafting model legislation.  Prior to joining Heritage in 2023, Burack served fo...

Andrew Bremberg is an American attorney and political advisor who most recently served as Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva. He previously served as Assistant to the President and the director of the Domestic Policy Council for U.S. President Donald Trump. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https:...

Kimberly Reed is an American attorney who served as the Chairman and President of the Export–Import Bank of the United States from 2019 to 2021. Reed previously served as a senior advisor to Treasury Secretaries John W. Snow and Henry Paulson. Reed headed the United States delegation to the inauguration ceremony of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria on May 28, 2019. Watch Full-Len...

Zenel Garcia is an Associate Professor of Security Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College. His research focuses on the intersection of international relations theory, security, and geopolitics. Specifically, how interpretations of security and the geopolitical environment shape the discursive and empirical processes of regional formation and transf...

Bob Fu is a Chinese-American pastor. In 2002, he founded ChinaAid, which provides legal aid to Christians in China, and has been its president since then. Bob Fu was born in Shandong in 1968 and studied English literature at Liaocheng University in the 1980s. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Michael Stumo is the Chief Executive Officer of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA), the leading, national bipartisan organization representing exclusively domestic producers and workers across many industries and sectors of the U.S. economy. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian is the China reporter at Axios, where she writes high-impact investigations, exclusives, and analysis about China, with a focus on how China projects power and influence beyond its own borders.  She is also the author of "Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World." Bethany is based in Taipei, Taiwan. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.you...

Anthony Ruggiero is senior director of FDD’s Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program and a senior fellow at FDD. Anthony’s broad experience in the fields of counterproliferation and nonproliferation spans more than 21 years, including more than 19 years in the United States Government in both Democratic and Republican administrations. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDes...

David Dollar is Senior Economist at the World Bank. Edward N. Wolff is Professor of Economics at New York University. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Robert Daly, the Director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, has served as a U.S. diplomat in Beijing; as an interpreter for Chinese and U.S. leaders, including President Carter and Secretary of State Kissinger; as head of China programs at Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, and the University of Maryland; and as a producer of Chinese-language versions of Sesame Stree...

Shihoko Goto is the Deputy Director of the Asia Program, and Director for Geoeconomics and Indo-Pacific Enterprise at the Wilson Cent. She specializes in trade relations and economic issues across the Indo-Pacific, and is also focused on the political developments in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. She is also a columnist for The Diplomat magazine and contributing editor to The Globalist. She was...

Bill Drexel is an Associate Fellow for the Technology and National Security Program at Center for a New American Security. His work focuses on the risks of artificial intelligence applications in national defense and tech competition more broadly. Previously, Drexel worked as an internal displacement data officer at UN Migration (IOM), where he focused on humanitarian innovation. Prior to the UN,...

Channing Mavrellis is Global Financial Integrity’s Illicit Trade Director, focusing on the intersection of illicit financial flows, transnational crime, and international trade. Ms. Mavrellis has over a decade of experience working on issues related to anti-money laundering and countering terrorism financing. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

John Cassara is an expert in anti-money laundering and counter-terror finance, with special expertise in money laundering in the Middle East and the growing threat of alternative remittance systems and forms of trade-based money laundering and value transfer. A 26-year veteran of the federal government intelligence and law enforcement communities, he is an industry advisor for SAS, as well as auth...

Neal Patrick Dunn is an American surgeon and Republican Party politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district since 2017. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Joel Wuthnow is a senior research fellow in the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs within the Institute for National Strategic Studies at NDU and also serves as an adjunct professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.  Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Sebastian Rotella is an American foreign correspondent, investigative journalist, and novelist. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

John Moody is an American journalist. He served as the executive editor and the executive vice president of Fox News. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Robert S. Spalding III is a retired United States Air Force brigadier general. He currently serves as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His work focuses on U.S.–China relations, economic and national security, and the Asia-Pacific military balance. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW