General Charles W. Hooper is a Senior Counselor at The Cohen Group and one of America’s most respected voices on U.S. security cooperation, defense diplomacy, and China strategy. He retired from the U.S. Army as Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA), where he oversaw over $50 billion in annual foreign military sales. A fluent Mandarin speaker and a former U.S. defense attaché to China, he brings decades of experience at the intersection of military strategy, diplomacy, and Indo-Pacific policy.