Getting China Policy Right
Managing the US-China relationship is arguably Washington's most consequential foreign policy challenge. The stakes are incredibly high for both sides, other countries, and the international system. Formulating and implementing the "right" policies to protect and advance American interests is critical. For the policies to succeed proper understanding of China's challenges and constraints, the goals and results of past and current US policies, and clarity about what we can and must achieve is required.
Thomas Fingar is a Shorenstein APARC Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He was the inaugural Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow and the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford. Mr. Fingar was the first deputy director of National Intelligence for Analysis and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council to include eleven years in various positions, including assistant secretary for Intelligence and Research. He also served as the senior analyst in the Department of State. During that fifteen-year period, Mr. Fingar was responsible for analytic work on all countries and all issues and personally reviewed, revised, and approved approximately 14,000 analytic papers for the President, the Secretary of State, and other senior officials. His duties also included responsibility for The President's Daily Brief, the preparation of National Intelligence Estimates, and improving the quality and utility of analysis performed in the sixteen agencies comprising the Intelligence Community. His research experience centers on contemporary China, US-China relations, US national security and foreign policy, and global issues. Mr. Fingar's most recent books are Uneasy Partnerships: China and Japan, the Koreas, and Russia in the Era of Reform, editor (Stanford, 2017), and The New Great Game: China and South and Central Asia in the Era of Reform, editor (Stanford, 2016). Fateful Decisions: Choices that will Shape China's Future (edited with Jean Oi, Stanford, forthcoming).
