Who we are
Dr. Jonathan D.T. Ward
Dr. Jonathan D. T. Ward is the author of China’s Vision of Victory, a handbook to the global strategy of the Chinese Communist Party which utilizes numerous primary documents to explain their near and long-term vision in their own words. Dr. Ward is an internationally recognized expert on Chinese global strategy and U.S.-China competition. He earned his PhD in China-India relations at the University of Oxford and his undergraduate degree at Columbia University where he studied the Russian and Chinese languages.
His company, Atlas Organization, works with global firms in key strategic industries, building a multi-sector understanding of U.S.-China competition and risk. He is a frequently invited speaker for government, military, business, and financial audiences. Dr. Ward’s commentary on Chinese grand strategy and on U.S.-China relations has been featured in numerous media outlets including CNBC, Fox Business, Fox, MSNBC, Bloomberg, CBS, PBS, The Financial Times, Forbes, The Street, Newsweek, National Review and The National Interest.His book on the global strategy of the Chinese Communist Party has been widely read by audiences in U.S. government and industry.
Dr. Ward’s experience in Asia includes traveling across Tibet in truck caravans, crossing the South China Sea by cargo ship, and gaining access to Communist Party diplomatic archives in Beijing which have now been closed to the world. Dr. Ward lived and traveled globally for over a decade in China, India, Russia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. He speaks Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic. He has consulted for the U.S. Department of Defense on Chinese long-term strategy and for leading Fortune 500 corporations on U.S.-China global competition. Dr. Ward has briefed numerous government agencies as well as leading American companies in the defense, aerospace, technology, financial services, telecommunications, automotive, and industrial sectors on Chinese strategy and U.S.-China competition.
Advisory Board
Dr. Robert F. MacInnis
Dr. Donald J. Stoker
Dr. Katherine Tobin
Additional Advisory Board members joining soon
our Advisory services
Atlas Organization provides evidence-based advisory services to leaders and strategists in business, government, and finance on US-China global competition.
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Briefings
Atlas provides briefings to senior leadership teams or private audiences on specific topics of interest.
Market Entry: India How to capture opportunity in the world’s next emerging giant as supply chains shift from China.
Make in India vs. Made in China 2025: How Indian and Chinese industrial policy is poised to reshape the global economy.
Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific: The military and economic rise of China and India, and the world’s new strategic balance.
China’s Vision of Victory: The global strategy of the Communist Party of China and what it means for the United States.
US-China Competition in the 2020s: The new direction in US-China relations and what this means for industry and investors.
The Rise of China’s Global Corporations: How China’s state-backed companies are changing the nature of global competition.
Speaking
Dr. Jonathan D.T. Ward has been a prolific speaker on US–China competition since the groundbreaking publication of China’s Vision of Victory. Dr. Ward briefs corporate executives and government institutions and presents at leading conferences on the future of US-China strategic competition. He is also a frequent guest in national and international media.
Testimonials
“Dr. Jonathan Ward is clearly one of the leading lights on China today. Ward’s brilliant analysis of Chinese strategy and the near and long-term outlook for US-China competition is essential for any serious audience dealing with the changes in today’s geopolitical and macroeconomic landscape, particularly for those who are thinking globally and managing large pools of capital.”
– John Mauldin, Strategic Investment Conference 2020
"When I speak with our customers and partners concerning digital transformation, the word 'global' is almost always implied – and it's not a global perspective if it isn't well informed, and unblinkingly insightful, on the role and the intentions of China. Few people can offer that perspective as clearly and credibly as Jonathan Ward: whether we're talking with bankers, or manufacturers, or practitioners in any other sector, I've been privileged to have Jonathan as a featured guest speaker who never leaves an audience unchanged by what they've heard."
– Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research, Salesforce
Selected Highlights
Jefferies Asia Forum
Salesforce Dreamforce
OPAL Family Office Fall Forum
United States Indo-Pacific Command
United States Department of Commerce
United States Strategic Command
Defense Intelligence Agency
US Department of Defense
Business Executives for National Security
United States House Foreign Affairs Committee
Keidanren: Japan Business Federation
The decisive decade
A rousing call to action and playbook for American victory against the long-term strategies of China's Communist Party.
From one of the world's foremost experts on US-China global competition, the author of China's Vision of Victory, comes a comprehensive framework for how the United States can, and must, prevail over China on the world stage. International security, prosperity, and the American-led world order are at stake. The action we must take now, in this decade, will determine who ultimately succeeds.
China's global power and influence grow every day. Working from a profound sense of national destiny, the Chinese Communist Party is leading its country toward "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." China's dictators and planners are executing a global grand strategy to overpower the United States of America. As China becomes increasingly repressive at home and aggressive abroad, its leaders envision the end of American preeminence and the American era.
Ward provides novel and practical strategies that our government, our business, and our citizens can use to win this competition in the Economic, Diplomatic, Military and Ideological Arenas. Ward urges American businesses to consider the ultimate outcome of aiding the Communist Party's global strategies. Industrial corporations engaged in China's "Belt and Road Initiative" and Silicon Valley companies entangled in China's surveillance state and military industrial base through "Civil Military Fusion" must heed the call. To restrain the Chinese Communist Party's global ambitions, Ward argues, we must unleash a new American economic strategy, consolidate the US alliance system, rebuild our military advantages and unite the democratic world into one strategic and integrated community.
The Decisive Decade, which includes insight into how the Russia-Ukraine war can inform our strategic thinking, presents a unique toolkit for our triumph over China. We can succeed, but it won't be easy. It will take all of our nation's ingenuity, confidence, and willpower to win.
China’s vision of victory
China’s Vision of Victory has been featured in numerous national and international television programs from Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures to The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. The Financial Times called China’s Vision of Victory “one of the first books to make the explicit argument for containment of China by the west.”
Praise for China’s Vision of Victory and for Jonathan D. T. Ward: