Strider Series: A Conversation with Matt Pottinger

Chapters: 0:00 - Matt Pottinger’s Background 1:52 - China in the 1990’s 7:40 - Chinese Economic Statecraft 12:16 - Chinese Decoupling 21:33 - Systematic Approach to IP Theft 33:37 - Moving to a Proactive Defense Matt Pottinger is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Pottinger served the White House for four years in senior roles on the National Security Council staff, including as deputy national security advisor from 2019 to 2021. In that role, he coordinated the full spectrum of national security policy. He previously served as senior director for Asia, where he led the administration’s work on the Indo-Pacific region, in particular its shift on China policy. Before his White House service, Pottinger spent the late 1990s and early 2000s in China as a reporter for Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He then fought in Iraq and Afghanistan as a US Marine during three combat deployments between 2007 and 2010. Following activ