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In addition to his role with Teneo, Paul Haenle holds the Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair at Carnegie China and is currently based in Singapore as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore.
Paul is also an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses to Chinese and international students on international relations and global governance. Since 2018, Paul has served on the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Paul served as the White House China director on the National Security Council under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. From June 2007 to January 2009, he also played a key role as the White House representative to the U.S. negotiating team at the six-party-talks nuclear negotiations. Beginning in 2004,Paul served three years in the West Wing as special assistant to U.S. National Security Advisors Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley.
Trained as a China foreign area officer in the U.S. Army, Paul has been assigned twice to the U.S. embassy in Beijing, served as a U.S. Army company commander during a two-year tour to the Republic of Korea, and worked in the Pentagon as an adviser on China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Affairs on the staff of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Early assignments in the U.S. Army included postings in Germany, Desert Storm, Korea, and Kuwait. He retired from the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel in October 2009.
Paul received an M.A in Asian studies from Harvard University, and a B.S. from Clarkson University.
Despite earlier Chinese balloons that US officials declined to publicize, the Biden administration apparently calculated that, given its low altitude, this balloon would inevitably be discovered. We doubt that Chinese leaders intended to engage in a brazen provocation ahead of a planned US visit to Beijing; a technical malfunction is…
A slew of global meetings was held in Southeast Asia in November, which saw the return of face-to-face diplomacy after the pandemic put a hold to traditional diplomatic meetings for almost three years. Over 12 days, key global leaders converged in Southeast Asia for the ASEAN Summit, G20 Summit and…
President Xi Jinping achieved his three major objectives: a third five-year term as general secretary, no presumed successor, and a Politburo Standing Committee stacked with loyalists. The main political faction that might have exerted modest constraints on Xi, the Communist Youth League faction, was entirely shut out of the Standing…
The Chinese government's initial response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Taiwan visit should ease concerns about a worst-case scenario of military confrontation or trade blockades. Even short of such scenarios, however, Beijing's responses could last for months, unsettling financial markets and raising risks for multinational companies. US multinationals in…
On March 7, Teneo Insights Asia hosted the second episode in a three-part series exploring a range of ESG issues and how the C-suite is responding. Entitled “ESG in the C-Suite: Incentivising Action in the “S” Pillar,” participants explored how governments and companies can drive real action on social issues…
Paul Haenle, Chairman of Teneo’s Asia Pacific Region, Director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing, and former Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolian Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Bush and Obama, and Gabriel Wildau, Teneo Senior Vice President, former Shanghai Bureau Chief for the Financial Times…
Teneo Senior Advisors General Raymond Odierno, Victor Cha and Jon Alterman, and Teneo's Chairman of the Asia Pacific Region, Paul Haenle, join Kevin Kajiwara to discuss U.S. international relations and the foreign and strategic policy environment that President Biden has inherited. …
Paul Haenle, Damien Ryan, Gabriel Wildau and Jerome Hauer Ph.D. join Kevin Kajiwara to discuss the New Challenges for Companies Doing Business in China. Listen to the Call Kevin Kajiwara (KK): Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining today's…
Paul Haenle, Simon Buckby, Gabriel Wildau and Jerome Hauer, Ph.D, join Kevin Kajiwara to discuss the coronavirus and its effects on the U.S. - China relationship. Listen to the Call Kevin Kajiwara (KK): Well, good day everyone and welcome…
Jerome Hauer, Ph.D, Gabriel Wildau, Paul Haenle and Oscar Wang join Kevin Kajiwara to discuss China's role in the Coronavirus crisis and how it will effect relations with the U.S. going forward. Listen to the Call Kevin Kajiwara (KK):…
Kevin Kajiwara (KK): Welcome to today’s Teneo Insights call on Hong Kong and the continued unrest there, and the potential path to a resolution. I’m Kevin Kajiwara, co-President of Teneo’s Political Risk Advisory business. Guiding us through today’s conversation, I’m joined by three of my colleagues: Damien Ryan, the CEO…
Despite the popular notion that the outlook for trade negotiations between the United States and China is gloomy, there may be room for cautious optimism that a positive outcome benefitting multinational companies can ultimately be achieved. Companies and executives evaluating their business strategies in China should focus on staying the…
A discussion between Paul Haenle, Damien Ryan and Gabriel Wildau. Moderated by Kevin Kajiwara. Kevin Kajiwara (KK): Today we’re going to discuss the outlook for the unrest that we continue to see in Hong Kong and look at the impact on markets, geopolitics and businesses operating in Hong Kong. Starting…
With populist parties and geostrategic rivalries making trade an increasingly salient political issue, it is more important than ever that companies understand the factors driving the range of trade policies currently being considered by governments around the world. The private sector will continue to be looked to as a partner…
As Washington and Beijing edged closer toward a trade confrontation in June, the trade imbalance between the United States and China reached a record $28.97 billion.[1] A rush of purchases made by U.S. importers before the July 6 tariff deadline was partially to blame for the…
A discussion between Teneo Senior Advisor and Director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing, China, Paul Haenle and Kevin Kajiwara, Co-Head of Teneo Intelligence. Teneo Senior Advisor Paul Haenle, former China Director and White House representative to the Six-Party Talks on the National Security Council staffs of former presidents George…
Xi Jinping assumed power at a pivotal moment in China’s history. Faced with an outdated economic model, political decay and pervasive corruption, and a military that is unfit and untested, he is embarking on an ambitious agenda to rejuvenate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and secure its future. The 19th…
More Centralization of Power Coming China’s economy made headlines again in 2016. For the casual observer, slowing growth was the dominant storyline. Those who take a deeper look, however, will find a competing narrative: China’s economy is moving in two different directions. In industrial regions, China’s “old economy” is showing…
The rise of Chinese President Xi Jinping has brought to bear a foreign business environment that is at once every CEO’s dream and nightmare. On the one hand, the world’s second largest economy and consumer market weathered the global financial crisis with urban and rural disposable household incomes increasing faster…
