Joanna Chiu

After working as a foreign correspondent in China, Joanna Chiu is now Bureau Chief and a Senior Reporter in the Toronto Star’s Vancouver newsroom. The Star is Canada’s largest newspaper and a leading source of news on Canada-China relations including the Huawei Meng Wanzhou saga and Canadian reactions to the ongoing Hong Kong protests.

Chiu was previously a Beijing-based reporter for Agence France Presse (AFP), focusing on coverage of China’s human rights, legal issues, and social affairs. She has also served as China and Mongolia correspondent for German news agency DPA, and in Hong Kong, she reported for the South China Morning Post, The Economist, and The Associated Press. She is the Founder and Chair of the NüVoices editorial collective, which celebrates the diverse creative work of self-identified women working on the subject of China (broadly defined) through a bi-weekly podcast, a website, and a directory of more than 500 female Greater China experts.

Stephen Hadley

Stephen Hadley served as the National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009. From 2001 to 2005, Hadley served as Deputy National Security Advisor. In addition to covering the full range of national security issues, he had special responsibilities in several areas including a U.S./Russia political dialogue, the Israeli disengagement from Gaza, and developing a strategic relationship with India.

From 1993 to 2001, Hadley was both a principal in The Scowcroft Group (a strategic consulting firm headed by former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft) and partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner (now part of Goodwin Proctor). In his consulting practice, he represented U.S. corporate clients investing and doing business overseas, including in China, the United Arab Emirates, and Western and Eastern Europe. At Shea & Gardner, he represented U.S. corporate clients in transactional and international matters—including export controls, foreign investment in U.S. national security companies, and the national security responsibilities of U.S. information technology companies. From 1989 to 1993, Hadley served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy for President George H.W. Bush, and from 1974 to 1977 he served on the National Security Council staff of President Gerald R. Ford.

Hadley remains engaged on U.S. national security policy, currently serving on the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He is also a Director of the Atlantic Council, serving on its Executive Committee, and he is a member of the Board of Managers of Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, Chairman of RAND’s Center for Middle East Public Policy Advisory Board, and a member of Yale University’s Kissinger Papers Advisory Board. He previously held positions as co-chair of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel, a member of the Department of Defense Policy Board, and a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Hadley also serves as Senior Advisor on International Affairs to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). In this capacity, he has co-chaired a series of senior bipartisan working groups on topics ranging from Arab-Israeli peace to U.S. political strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan to U.S.-Turkey relations. He also contributes to the Institute’s programs in the Middle East and Asia.

Hadley graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1969. In 1972, he received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Note and Comment Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Trump’s Incredibly Risky Taiwan Policy

So-called friends of Taiwan in the United States are putting the island at risk as never before. The Taiwan Travel Act, passed unanimously by both houses of Congress, and signed by President Trump on March 16, 2018 without reservations, could gravely erode the distinction between the United States’ official relationship with the People’s Republic of China (P.R.C.) and its unofficial relationship with Taiwan.