美中全球议题对话项目

This event is co-sponsored by the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues and the Asian Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. 

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Christopher B. Johnstone is partner and chair of the defense and national security practice at The Asia Group (TAG). He previously served as a senior advisor at TAG and as senior advisor and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Johnstone spent 25 years in senior U.S. government roles focused on Indo-Pacific alliances, serving twice on the National Security Council—as director for East Asia under President Joe Biden and director for Japan and Oceanian affairs under President Barack Obama—and led key Asia offices in the Department of Defense, covering South and Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Northeast Asia. He began his career as a Central Intelligence Agency intelligence officer, later serving as a senior analyst and team chief on Asia. 

Randall Schriver is chairman of the board at the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security and a partner at Pacific Solutions LLC. He most recently served as U.S. assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs (2018–2019). Previously, Schriver co-founded Armitage International and the Project 2049 Institute, where he served as president and CEO. He earlier held senior roles at the U.S. State Department—including deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs—and at the Pentagon, where he managed U.S. defense relations with China and Taiwan. A former Navy intelligence officer, he served on active duty during Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and later in the Navy Reserves, including assignments supporting the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. embassies in Beijing and Ulaanbaatar. 

Sheila A. Smith is the visiting teaching professor in modern and contemporary Japanese politics in the Asian Studies Program at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and the John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. An expert on Japanese politics and foreign policy, she is the author of Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power (2019), Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China (2015), and Japan’s New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance (2014).

Evan Medeiros (moderator) is the Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies at the School of Foreign Service and a senior fellow with the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University. Medeiros has in-depth experience in U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific from his time on the National Security Council as director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and then as special assistant to the president and senior director for Asia under President Barack Obama.