Taiwan Briefing featuring Matt Pottinger
Taiwan is a vibrant democracy and a key strategic partner of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region. It is home to a thriving majority of the global semiconductor market, manufacturing many of the computer chips in the everyday products we use. However, it is also prone to natural disasters and faces existential threats to its security.
In this 30-minute briefing, CEO Jim Hake was joined by Matt Pottinger to discuss what’s at stake in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region.
Speakers:
Jim Hake, CEO, Spirit of America
Matt Pottinger, Distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution
Matt Pottinger is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. Pottinger served for four years in senior roles on the National Security Council, including as deputy national security advisor from 2019 to 2021 and previously as senior director for Asia. Prior to his White House service, Pottinger spent the late 1990s and early 2000s in China as a reporter for Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He then fought in Iraq and Afghanistan as a US Marine during three combat deployments between 2007 and 2010.
