China Hands
Podcast on historical and contemporary US-China relations, featuring the negotiators, policymakers, and researchers who re-established relations in 1978, the first American students in China and vice-versa, Deans and Chancellors of Sino-foreign joint-venture universities, and so many more!
China Hands
Thomas Fingar - Main Episode
Thomas (Tom) Fingar is a Shorenstein APARC Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He was the inaugural Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow from 2010 through 2015 and the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford in 2009.
From 2005 through 2008, he served as the first deputy director of national intelligence for analysis and, concurrently, as chairman of the National Intelligence Council. Fingar served previously as assistant secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (2000-01 and 2004-05), principal deputy assistant secretary (2001-03), deputy assistant secretary for analysis (1994-2000), director of the Office of Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific (1989-94), and chief of the China Division (1986-89). Between 1975 and 1986 he held a number of positions at Stanford University, including senior research associate in the Center for International Security and Arms Control.
As you'll hear in the first part of the interview, he also played a key role at Stanford University and the United States Government from the 1970s onward in negotiating the exchange agreement between Stanford University and the Chinese government. This agreement served as a template for the general educational exchange agreement between America and China.