Jun 15 2012
Chris Johnson
The CIA’s Former Top China Analyst
Chris Johnson is a senior adviser and holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. An accomplished Asian affairs specialist, Mr. Johnson spent nearly two decades serving in the U.S. government’s intelligence and foreign affairs communities and has extensive experience analyzing and working in Asia on a diverse set of country-specific and transnational issues.
“An accomplished Asian affairs specialist”
Chris worked as a Senior China Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he played a key role in the analytic support to policymakers during the 1996 Taiwan Strait missile crisis, the 1999 accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, the downing of a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft on Hainan Island in 2001 and the SARS epidemic in 2003. Chris served as an intelligence liaison to two secretaries of state and their deputies on worldwide security issues and in 2011 was awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Superior Honor Award for outstanding support to the secretary and her senior staff. [/expand]
Chris offers unrivalled expertise in dealing with Asia. His knowledge of China’s internal dynamics helps provide leading analysis to audiences who want to expand into China and Asia.[/expand]
Topics
China’s Leadership and the Fall Transition to a New Generation
How Chinese Policymaking (Foreign, Domestic, Economic) Works
How Stable Is China?
Chinese Economic Policymaking and Implementation
Southeast Asia as a New Field of Competition between the United States and China
China’s approach to North Korea.
China’s Intelligence Services and its Approach to Cyber
China’s Grand Strategy in Asia
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