About this webinar
Days after President Trump's summit with President Xi in Beijing, join us for a fireside chat with David Shedd, former Acting Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Shedd will unpack what the meeting signals for the next phase of U.S.-China strategic competition — and connect it to China's decades-long intelligence and industrial espionage campaign.
David Shedd spent nearly 33 years inside the U.S. national security and intelligence apparatus, much of that time tracking China. Last December, he co-authored The Great Heist with Andrew Badger, drawing on intelligence cases, corporate breaches, and firsthand experience at the decision-making level to examine how the Chinese Communist Party built a "whole-of-society" system to acquire foreign technology, strategic intelligence, and industrial capabilities. From aerospace and defense primes to leading technology and electric vehicle companies, the book traces how these efforts have accelerated China's technological rise while exposing deep vulnerabilities across the U.S. innovation and defense ecosystem.
Mr. Shedd joins Jane Tang of The Brief for a conversation on what these developments mean at a pivotal moment — coming on the heels of the Trump-Xi summit, ahead of Section 1260H's June 30 prohibition on new DoD contracts, and amid continued tightening across export controls and adversarial-capital screening.
What we will discuss:
How the current policy moment — the Trump–Xi summit, Section 1260H taking effect June 30, and ongoing Entity List action...
