President Xi Goes to Washington: Building Stability or Merely Postponing Conflict?

Jake Werner is director of the East Asia Program at the Quincy Institute. His research examines the emergence of great power conflict between the US and China and develops policies to rebuild constructive economic relations. Prior to joining Quincy, Jake was a Postdoctoral Global China Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago, a Fulbright Scholar at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and a Fulbright-Hays Fellow at East China Normal University in Shanghai. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. Jake is also a cofounder of Justice Is Global, a grassroots organizing project that advocates for reforms to the global economy.

Alvin Wang Graylin is a senior fellow on Technology at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, a Digital Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, and a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also Chair of the Virtual World Society and co-author of Our Next Reality. With more than 35 years of working experience split between the United States and China, his career spans artificial intelligence, semiconductors, data centers, immersive computing, and cybersecurity. He has held executive roles at HTC, Intel, IBM, and Trend Micro, founded four venture-backed startups, and invested in more than 100 early stage technology companies.

Paul Heer is senior nonresident fellow at Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He served for 30 years as a specialist on East Asian affairs in the US intelligence community. He served on the staff of the president’s daily brief and as a member of the senior analytic service at the Central Intelligence Agency before becoming the national intelligence officer for East Asia. He was a visiting intelligence fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and was elected a life member in 2001. He was the Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at MIT’s Center for International Studies, and later served as adjunct professor at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is editor-in-chief at Responsible Statecraft and a senior advisor at the Quincy Institute. Previously she was executive editor of The American Conservative magazine. Before joining TAC in 2017, Vlahos served as a contributing editor to the magazine, reporting and publishing regular articles on U.S. war policy, civil liberties, foreign policy, veterans, and Washington politics since 2007. She spent 15 years as an online political reporter for FOX News at the channel’s Washington D.C. bureau, as well as Washington correspondent for Homeland Security Today magazine. She is on the board of PublicSquare.net, a non-profit media project promoting informed Left-Right debate.