David Feith

David Feith was an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security’s Indo-Pacific Security Program. He served as U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Before that, he was an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong.

From 2017 to 2021, Feith helped create the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy and reorient U.S. policy toward China and Asia generally at the Department of State. As deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, he oversaw the offices of Multilateral Affairs and Regional and Security Policy, with responsibility for South China Sea policy, relations with the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), security cooperation, foreign assistance programming and budgeting. From 2017 to 2019, Feith served as a member of the secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff, advising on relations with China and countries across the Indo-Pacific region, for which he received a Superior Honor Award. Feith has a B.A. in history from Columbia University