David Feith

David Feith is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He specializes in US-China relations and technology policy, including artificial intelligence, export controls, and managing dual-use risks.

Mr. Feith served in the second Trump administration as special assistant to the president and senior director for technology and national security on the US National Security Council.

Mr. Feith served in the first Trump administration as US deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, overseeing the Offices of Regional and Security Policy and Multilateral Affairs, and as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff, helping to create the US Indo-Pacific Strategy and reorient US policy toward China and Asia generally.

Before government service, Mr. Feith worked for the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong from 2013 to 2017, writing editorials on Asian economic and political affairs, and before that as an op-ed editor in New York from 2010 to 2013. He was also an assistant editor at Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Feith has consulted for a wide range of financial and corporate clients, and for the US Air Force. He has testified before the US Senate and the US House of Representatives, and his writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Commentary, and other publications.

He is also an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).

Mr. Feith received a BA in history from Columbia University.