FDD | 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 21^st 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.

FDD’s China Program team 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

LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster

CMPP Chairman

Juan C. Zarate

CEFP Chairman

Iran
Iran Sanctions
Iran Global Threat Network
Iran in Latin America
Hezbollah
North Korea
Russia
Sanctions and Illicit Finance
Cyber

Cyber
Sanctions and Illicit Finance
North Korea
Blockchain and Digital Currencies
Military and Political Power

Nathan Picarsic

Senior Fellow

Bradley Bowman

CMPP Senior Director

Mark Dubowitz

Chief Executive

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

Senior Vice President for Research

Palestinian Politics
Iran
Iran Sanctions
Iran Global Threat Network
Hezbollah
Iran-backed Terrorism
Turkey
Jihadism
Sanctions and Illicit Finance

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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.

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Monographs

FDD's China team conducts detailed analysis on a range of the Chinese Communist Party's illicit activities.

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Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr.

Commander, U.S. Central Command

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Amb. Nikki R. Haley

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations

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Hon. Ryan D. McCarthy

Acting Secretary, U.S. Army

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Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY)

Chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee

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Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL)

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LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster

Former National Security Advisor

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Rep. Michael Gallagher

(R-WI-8), 2011 FDD National Security Fellow

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