Join the Intelligence Project for an in-person seminar with Jonathan Czin, former senior CIA analyst on China and former NSC director for China, for a discussion of China's likely foreign policy beyond 2027 as Xi Jinping enters his fourth term. The talk will build off Czin's recent articles The Four Seasons of Xi’s Foreign Policy and The Coming Taiwan Crisis: Use Today’s Calm to Prepare for the Next Perfect Storm, in which Czin explores inflection points in Xi Jinping's strategy and the likelihood that 2028 will bring another inflection point in which, depending on election outcomes in Taiwan and the United States, China may take on, in Czin's words, a more assertive foreign policy.
Location: NEUSTADT, Rubenstein Building, R-G-21
This event is open to Harvard ID holders and RSVP is required. The event will be held under the Chatham House Rule. Light refreshments will be provided.
Jonathan A. Czin is the Michael H. Armacost Chair in Foreign Policy Studies and a fellow in the China Center, where he also co-host the podcast “The Beijing Brief.”
Czin is a former member of the Senior Analytic Service at the CIA, where he was the intelligence community’s top expert on Xi Jinping. From 2021 to 2023, he served as director for China at the National Security Council, where he staffed all of President Biden’s interactions with President Xi and played a leading role in addressing a wide range of global China issues. He also served at the Department of Defense and overseas at a CIA field station in Southeast Asia.
Czin holds a master’s degree in international relations from Yale University, graduated magna cum laude from Haverford College, and studied at Oxford University.
