8-23-21  At UCSD’s annual “China Forum”:  Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, “Asia Czar” Kurt Campbell, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Ely Ratner along with Rush Doshi and Julian Gewirtz, who lead the National Security Council’s China desk, and Melanie Hart and Mira Rapp-Hooper, who play a comparable role at the State Department, were in attendance.

One of the fifteen “key takeaways” from the 2019 dialogue – whose “sponsors” included Kurt Campbell himself, as well as Qualcomm, the Asia Group Foundation, East West Bank, and one further “anonymous” source  – advocated that “competitive coexistence, rather than confrontation and containment, is the best path forward” in the context of U.S.-China relations.

“The participants rejected a China policy that was implacably confrontational or that sought to contain China,” a summary explains.

A key Biden figure – “Asia Czar” Kurt Campbell – was also a top sponsor of the event along with The Asia Group, a consultancy group he founded the same month he departed the Obama administration’s State Department. In addition to an “anonymous” donor backing the conference, corporations including Qualcomm and the philanthropic arm of East West Bank were also supporters.  https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/biden-advisers-spoke-at-ccp-funded-conference/