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<p>Join us for a fireside chat between former <strong>Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger</strong> and Ambassador Nicholas Burns as they discuss China’s trajectory and the future of U.S.-China relations. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Matt Pottinger</strong> is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Chairman of the China Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and CEO of Garnaut Global. He served on the National Security Council as Deputy National Security Advisor (2019–2021) and as Senior Director for Asia (2017–2019), where he led the first Trump administration’s work on the Indo-Pacific region and helped shape its shift in China policy. Mr. Pottinger served as a U.S. Marine, completing three combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan between 2007 and 2010. Earlier, he was a reporter in China for Reuters and <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Mr. Pottinger is the editor and contributing author of <em>The Boiling Moat </em>(2024). He is a graduate in Chinese Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Ambassador Nicholas Burns</strong> is the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School and the Founder and Faculty Chair of the Program on Diplomacy and Statecraft. Burns served as U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 2021 to 2025. </p>
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