China Program
About
The United States is engaged in a strategic competition with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The challenges posed by the CCP continue to mount: the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, massive human rights abuses, threats to American democratic allies like Taiwan and Hong Kong, dominance of vital supply chains and critical 21st century technologies, cyber intrusions, theft of U.S. intellectual property, strategic and weaponized CCP foreign investment in the United States and around the globe, North Korea and Iran nuclear, missile and military cooperation and sanctions-busting, and military provocations in the Indo-Pacific.
To address these threats, FDD’s China Program experts work as part of FDD’s three centers on American power to leverage the economic, financial, military, political, cyber and technology tools to expose and counter the full scope of the CCP challenge. They conduct detailed research, appear regularly in the media, and develop actionable policy options.
Chaired by Matthew Pottinger, FDD’s China Program includes fellows and analysts with a range of backgrounds, Chinese language skills, data-driven mining capabilities to examine Chinese-language sources, and experience in government, intelligence, military, and technology. FDD’s China Program examines a range of topics including: illicit finance; corrupt CCP global infrastructure; exploitation of the U.S. court system; methods for protecting vulnerable U.S. supply chains; proliferation activities; military developments; cyber threats; and human rights abuses in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and elsewhere.
Experts
Matthew Pottinger
LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster
Juan C. Zarate
- Iran
- Iran Sanctions
- Iran Global Threat Network
- Iran in Latin America
- Hezbollah
- North Korea
- Russia
- Sanctions and Illicit Finance
- Cyber
Eric B. Lorber
Emily de La Bruyère
Samantha Ravich
- Cyber
- Sanctions and Illicit Finance
- North Korea
- Blockchain and Digital Currencies
- Military and Political Power
Nathan Picarsic
Bradley Bowman
Mark Dubowitz
- Iran Sanctions
- Iran Human Rights
- Syria
- Iran Missiles
- Iran
- Iran Global Threat Network
- Hezbollah
- Iran-backed Terrorism
- Sanctions and Illicit Finance
- Cyber
- Iran Nuclear
Jonathan Schanzer
- Palestinian Politics
- Iran
- Iran Sanctions
- Iran Global Threat Network
- Hezbollah
- Iran-backed Terrorism
- Turkey
- Jihadism
- Sanctions and Illicit Finance
Battlegrounds
The Fight to Defend the Free World
Published in September 2020, FDD's Center on Military and Political Power Chairman LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster authored a bold and provocative re-examination of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the United States including America’s strategic competition with China.
Monographs
FDD's China team conducts detailed analysis on a range of the Chinese Communist Party's illicit activities.
Products
Time for Israel to pivot away from Beijing
As Israel decouples from China, there will be even greater opportunities for greater cooperation between close allies. Israel must support the US and keep a distance from China.
The Jerusalem Post
Understanding That Weakness Is Provocative Is Deterrence 101
Biden has canceled yet another test of our ICBM system so as not to cause more tension with China.
The Dispatch
Xi’s Great Leap Backward
Beijing is running out of recipes for its looming jobs crisis—and reviving Mao-era policies.
Foreign Policy
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: August
FDD Tracker: July 6, 2022-August 3, 2022
As Pelosi visits Taiwan, don’t miss the action on China in Congress
Defense News
Events
Investing to Deter in the Pacific: A Conversation with INDOPACOM Commander Admiral John Aquilino
June 24, 2022 | 10:15 am
Leveraging American Innovation to Counter Beijing and Protect U.S. National Security
May 11, 2022 | 10:15 am