Great Power Competition: Beijing vs. the Free World
Wednesday, March 10 at 6 pm
Former Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger will discuss the new landscape in the great power competition between the U.S. and China, and strategic pitfalls that free countries must avoid.
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Matt Pottinger is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Matt served at the White House for four years in senior roles on the National Security Council staff, including as Deputy National Security Advisor from 2019 to 2021. In that role, Matt coordinated the full spectrum of national security policy. “Matt Pottinger conceptualized and drove the most important shift in U.S. foreign policy since the end of the Cold War,” former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said of Matt’s role in helping reorient the United States toward great-power competition with China. Before his White House service, Matt spent the late 1990s and early 2000s in China as a reporter for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. He then fought in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine during three combat deployments between 2007 and 2010.
Moderator: Dexter Tiff Roberts, Mansfield Fellow and Author of the “Myth of Chinese Capitalism”
Roberts is an award-winning writer and speaker who previously spent more than two decades as China bureau chief and Asia news editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, reporting from all of China’s provinces and regions, as well as Taiwan, Mongolia, and North Korea. He now serves as an adjunct instructor in political science and a Mansfield Fellow at the University of Montana and as a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Asia Security Initiative. He has recently launched a China newsletter called Trade War; his book “The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: the Worker, the Factory and the Future of the World” was published in March 2020.
