Trump Admin’s Rectification of Serial Free Trade Violators

The Center for China-U.S. Cooperation is hosting special guest David R. Stilwell.

David R. Stilwell is the Fox Fellow for Future Pacing Threats at the Air Force Academy. He most recently served as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2019-2021. He is a 35-year Air Force veteran, beginning as an enlisted Korean linguist in 1980, and retiring in 2015 with the rank of Brigadier General as the Asia advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.  He served multiple tours of duty in Japan and Korea as a linguist, a fighter pilot, and a commander.  He also served as the Defense Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 2011-2013. He earned a B.S. in History from the U.S. Air Force Academy (1987), and a master’s degree in Asian studies and Chinese language from the University of Hawaii at Manoa (1988).