Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
Brookings. David was appointed assistant secretary of state by donald trump. He previously served in the air force for 35 years, beginning as a linguist in 1980, retiring as a brigadier general. He was the advisor to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and served as the defensive attache in beijing. He recently served as the director of the China Strategic Focus Group in hawaii from 2017 to 2019, where he was an abjects adjunct senior fellow. David, thank you for your service to our country and the important work you are doing now. As you can see from his background, he has been at the forefront of managing policy questions that shape the future of these relationships and has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy to china and is preoccupied with keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole, where we have a huge number of relationships, partners, allies, and interests that go beyond simply the question of china. Assistant secretary stillwell and i were here
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