What does America’s New National Security Strategy Mean for China?

Sheena Chestnut Greitens

Sheena Chestnut Greitens is associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she directs the Asia Policy Program and serves as editor-in-chief of the Texas National Security Review. She is also a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and visiting faculty at the China Landpower Studies Center of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

Dr. Chestnut Greitens’ research focuses on international security, authoritarian politics, and East Asia, especially China and Korea. She is the author of two books, Dictators and their Secret Police (Cambridge, 2016) and Politics of the North Korean Diaspora (Cambridge, 2023). She is working on a book about how internal security shapes China’s grand strategy. Her work has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes in English, Chinese, and Korean, and in major media outlets, and she has testified before Congress on security and democracy in the Indo-Pacific.

Dr. Chestnut Greitens received her B.A. from Stanford, MPhil from Oxford, and Ph.D. from Harvard. She was previously an NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program fellow.

Ryan Fedasiuk

Ryan Fedasiuk is a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he writes on the intersection of U.S.-China relations, technology, and national power. He is cross-appointed between AEI’s Foreign and Defense Policy Studies program and the Center for Technology, Science, and Energy. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, where he teaches open-source intelligence (OSINT) methods. From 2022-2024, Ryan was an Advisor for U.S.-China Bilateral Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, where he helped launch the Office of China Coordination and served as the U.S. government’s main point of contact with the Chinese Embassy in Washington. Before that, he was a Senior Research Analyst with the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), leading open-source investigations into military applications of AI and U.S. security posture in East Asia. Ryan’s investigations into U.S. and Chinese technological power have been featured in reporting by The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Associated Press; and his commentary has appeared in POLITICO, Foreign Policy, Defense One, and War on the Rocks, among other outlets. Ryan holds an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University, where he also studied Mandarin. He received his B.A. in International Studies and Russian language from American University.

Yun Sun

Yun Sun is a senior fellow and director of the China Program at the Stimson Center. Her expertise is in Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and China’s relations with neighboring countries and authoritarian regimes.

From 2011 to early 2014, she was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, jointly appointed by the Foreign Policy Program and the Global Development Program, where she focused on Chinese national security decision-making processes and China-Africa relations. From 2008 to 2011, Yun was the China analyst for the International Crisis Group (ICG) based in Beijing, specializing in China’s foreign policy towards conflict countries and the developing world. Prior to the ICG, she worked on U.S.-Asia relations in Washington, DC for five years. Yun earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University