2024 America's Grand Strategy Towards China

Professor Jiang Yi-huah holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Political Science from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. Born in Keelung, Taiwan, he has served as Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences; Associate Professor, Professor, and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at NTU; and Professor of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong. Between 2008 and 2014, he held various senior government positions, including Minister of the Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Minister of the Interior, vice premier, and premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Professor Jiang’s research focuses on political philosophy, liberalism, democratic theory, national identity, and Taiwan’s political development. Among his major publications are Liberalism, Nationalism, and National Identity (Yang-Chih, 1998), Essays on Liberalism and Democracy (Linking Books, 2000), and Nationalism and Democratic Politics (NTU Press, 2003). He has received several accolades, including the Distinguished Teaching Award from NTU (2001) and the Outstanding Research Award from Taiwan’s National Science Council (2002).

Edward “Ted” Wittenstein is a Lecturer in Global Affairs and the Executive Director of International Security Studies, a research and teaching hub of the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. In that capacity, he helps oversee a number of programs dedicated to international history and global security, including the Schmidt Program on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power; the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy; and the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. A former diplomat and intelligence professional, Ted teaches undergraduate, graduate, and law courses on intelligence, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and national security decision-making. He also serves as Co-Director of the Yale Cyber Leadership Forum, a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, and a visiting faculty fellow at Yale Law School’s Center for Global Legal Challenges.

Ted is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. Prior to returning to work for Yale, he held a variety of positions at the U.S. Department of Defense, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Department of State.

Dave Rank spent 27 years as a State Department Foreign Service Officer, including his final assignment as Deputy Chief of Mission and, following the 2016 election, as the Charge’d’Affaires (acting Ambassador) at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. In addition to six Foreign Service assignments in greater China (three in Beijing, two at the American Institute in Taiwan and one at the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai), Dave served at the U.S. embassies in Kabul, Athens, and Port Louis (Mauritius). In Washington, he worked in the office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP), the State Department Korea desk, as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and as a Fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. In 2015 he received the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award for his role in the release of the only American servicemember held by the enemy in Afghanistan. He is also the recipient of the American Foreign Service Association’s Sinclaire Award for the study of languages and their related cultures. He now serves as the head of the China practice at The Cohen Group, a global business strategy consultancy. Dave also teaches at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and is Senior Fellow at the Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago (EPIC) and at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, French, Dari and Greek. He and his wife, Mary, have three children.

A graduate of the Department of Diplomacy at National Chengchi University, Su earned his master degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1975 and later completed a Ph.D. in Political Science and advanced studies in Soviet Affairs at Columbia University in 1984.

During his time in the United States, he conducted research at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and worked as an editor and translator for the World Journal in New York. Upon returning to Taiwan, he held various key positions, including Minister of the Government Information Office, Executive Yuan; convener of the National Security Division, National Policy Foundation; Minister without Portfolio, Executive Yuan; deputy secretary-general to the President; minister of the Mainland Affairs Council; professor at National Chengchi University and Tamkang University; legislator; and secretary-general of the National Security Council.