Winter Board Lunch

Few people have looked at U.S.-China relations from as many angles as Isaac Stone Fish. He has seen it as a Beijing correspondent, as an editor and columnist, as a policy fellow, and now as an advisor to companies working through one of the most consequential trade relationships in the world. Join us for a candid conversation about what that relationship means for Washington’s businesses right now.

Isaac spent seven years living in China. He speaks fluent Mandarin and has traveled to every province, municipality, and special administrative region in the country. He covered China as Newsweek’s Beijing correspondent, then went on to serve as Asia editor at Foreign Policy, a columnist at The Washington Post, and an on-air contributor to CBS News. Today he writes on China risk as a columnist for Barron’s, and his analysis is regularly quoted by CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, The New York Times, and The Guardian.

In 2021 he founded Strategy Risks, a business intelligence firm that helps companies understand and manage geopolitical risk. His book, America Second: How America’s Elites Are Making China Stronger (Knopf), explores the relationships between American business and political leaders and China, and what those relationships mean for the United States.

Isaac is also an adjunct at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council. He was previously a senior fellow at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and at the German Marshall Fund.