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Julian Gewirtz

U.S.- China Tensions—Past, Present, and Future

Friday, February 27, 7 p.m.

Saturday, February 28, 2 p.m.

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Dr. Julian Gewirtz served in the Biden administration as Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC), Senior Advisor to the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor, and as Deputy China Coordinator at the State Department.

Gewirtz is the author of three books including Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s, which was named the best book of the year by Foreign Affairs and BBC History, and the Making of Global China and Your Face My Flag: Poems. He was previously Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Lecturer in History at Harvard University and Columbia University. Gewirtz was recently named one of "50 people shaping our society" by the Washington Post. He received his doctoral degree in modern Chinese history from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his undergraduate degree from Harvard College.

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