Eric Hagt

The director of the Center for Defense Information's China Program, Hagt is also the editor of China Security, a quarterly English-language policy journal with offices in Washington and Beijing that express diverse Chinese views on a range of security issues pertinent to China, Asia, and U.S.-Chinese relations. He has studied and worked in Taiwan and China for eight years, including from 1996 to 2000, when he served as the chief representative of a consulting firm in Beijing. Previously, he worked as a visiting researcher at the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.