Kenneth Allen is a Senior Analyst at The CNA Corporation. During his 21-year career in the U.S. Air Force, he was an Assistant Air Force Attaché in China...

Mr. Martin Andrew retired from the Australian Defence Force after 28 years of service and holds a Masters Degree in Asian Studies...

Tariq Mahmud Ashraf is a retired Air Commodore from the Pakistan Air Force. A freelance analyst on South Asian defense and nuclearization issues, he has authored one book and published over 70 papers and articles in journals of repute...

Chietigj Bajpaee is a Research Associate for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC...

Migeddorj Batchimeg is a senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Studies of Mongolia...

Richard A. Bitzinger is a Senior Fellow with the S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore...

Prior to working as Moscow-based independent researcher and journalist, Dr. Sergei Blagov was a newswire reporter. He spent nearly seven years reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam, between 1983 and 1997...

Dr. Stephen Blank is a professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA. The views expressed here do not represent those of the U.S. Army, Defense Department, or the U.S. Government...

Lt. Col. Dennis Blasko is a former U.S...

Dan Blumenthal is a resident fellow in Asian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and vice chairman of the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission. Previously, he was senior director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense...

Pieter Bottelier is a senior adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Prior to this, he served at the World Bank from 1970-1998 and was the Chief of the World Bank’s Resident Mission in Beijing from 1993-1997...

Jean-Pierre Cabestan is a Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research...

Dr. John Calabrese teaches U.S. Foreign Policy at American University and serves as book review editor of The Middle East Journal. He is the author of China's Changing Relations with the Middle East (1990) and numerous articles, including "Dragon by the Tail: China's Energy Quandary...

Dr. Alicia Campi has a Ph.D. in Mongolian Studies, was involved in the preliminary negotiations to establish bilateral relations in the 1980s, and served as a diplomat in Ulaanbaatar. She has a Mongolian consultancy company (U.S...

Alfred L. Chan is an associate professor of political science at Huron University College, University of Western Ontario, Canada...

Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, 2001)...

Dr. Michael S. Chase is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island...

Zhenzhen Chen is a researcher with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Study...

Tai Ming Cheung is a research fellow at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, San Diego...

Yee Wah Chin is Senior Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC. Ms. Chin served on the ABA task forces that drafted the 2003 and 2005 ABA Comments on the proposed Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China...

Mr. Frank Ching is a Hong Kong based journalist and commentator...

Chu Shulong, Ph.D., is currently a professor in political science and international relations at the School of Public Policy and Management, and deputy director, Institute of Strategic Studies of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China...

Dr. Bernard D. Cole is Professor of International History at the National War College in Washington, D.C., where he concentrates on Pacific strategy, Sino-American relations, and the Chinese military...

Dr. Merritt T. (“Terry”) Cooke is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, PA. He is also Founder and CEO of GC3 Strategy, an international consultancy/investment firm focusing on China and India (www.gc3s.com)...

Johanna Cox is a Research Associate at the Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis...

Dr. John C. K. Daly is a Eurasian foreign affairs and defense policy expert for The Jamestown Foundation based in Washington, D.C...

Elizaabeth Van Wie Davis is a Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) with a focus on Chinese domestic, foreign, and defense policies...

Mauro De Lorenzo is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He conducted research in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DR Congo for a number of years between 1998 and 2004, and revisited Kigali and Bujumbura in February 2007. He recently attended the second Africa-China-U.S...

Han Dongfang is the founder and director of China Labour Bulletin, a non-governmental organization based in Hong Kong that seeks to promote workers rights in mainland China

Joshua Eisenman is the co-editor of “China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century,” and author of the book’s chapter on China's strategy towards Africa (M.E. Sharpe 2006)...

Andrew S. Erickson is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Navy or Department of Defense...

Li Fan is a Research Fellow at the World and China Institute, a private think tank, in Beijing...

Zhu Feng is currently the visiting fellow at the Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Professor Zhu is the director of the International Security Program at the School of International Relations at Peking University...

Joseph Ferguson is currently at Princeton University. He was the director of Northeast Asia Studies at The National Bureau of Asian Research in Seattle, Washington...

Richard D. Fisher, Jr. was a senior fellow with the Jamestown Foundation and was the managing editor of China Brief...

Duncan Freeman is a writer and consultant based in Brussels specializing in EU-China relations...

John Garver is Professor of International Relations at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology...

Dr. Bates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A specialist in East Asian foreign policy and politics, Dr. Gill focuses primarily on China's domestic transformation, China's regional diplomacy, and US-China relations...

Bonnie S. Glaser is a senior associate at the Washington, DC-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Pacific Forum, CSIS. She is also a consultant to the U.S. government. Glaser writes a quarterly analysis of Sino-U.S...

Dr. Paul H.B. Godwin retired as professor of international affairs at the National War College in the summer of 1998, where his teaching and research concentrated on Chinese defense and security policy...

Stephen Green is Head of the Asia Program at Chatham House, London...

Christopher Griffin is a research fellow in Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He can be reached at cgriffin@aei.org...

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Eric Hagt is the Director of the China Program at the Center for Defense Information...

Keith Hand is a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School’s China Law Center...

Brian Harding is a Research Associate for Improving the Nation's Security Decisions Project...

Ambassador Paul Hare is the executive director of the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia from 1985 to 1988 and as the U.S. Special Representative for the Angolan Peace Process from 1993-1998...

William R. Hawkins is Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the U.S. Business and Industry Council...

Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), and Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, both at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr...

Mr. Hsiao is the Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation...

Dr. Teh-wei Hu is Professor Emeritus of Health Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born in China and received his PhD in economics from the University of Wisconsin...

Chin-Hao Huang is a Researcher with the Freeman Chair...

Masako Ikegami is Professor and Director of the Center for Pacific Asia Studies (CPAS) at Stockholm University. She holds Doctor of Sociology from University of Tokyo, and a Ph.D. in peace & conflict research from Uppsala University, Sweden...

Alisher Ilkhamov is a Research Fellow at the University of London, SOAS...

Rian Jensen was formerly the Associate Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation...

Dr. You Ji is Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Relations at the University of New South Wales...

Dr. Wenran Jiang is a professor of political science and director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, and a senior fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is the editor of the forthcoming book, Fueling the Dragon: China’s Energy Demand and Its Implications for Canada...

Dr. Jin Xide is a professor and the deputy director of the Institute of Japanese Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he has been working since 1994...

Roy D. Kamphausen is the Director of the Washington, DC office, and Director of National Security Affairs at The National Bureau of Asian Research. He is a retired U.S...

Dr. Kapur is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario...

Kazuyo Kato is an associate with Armitage International...

Thomas E. Kellogg is a Senior Fellow at the China Law Center of Yale Law School and a lecturer-in-law at Yale Law School...

Professor David Kelly is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore...

Jason Kelly is a research assistant at the RAND Corporation...

Nazery Khalid is a Research Fellow at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia

Dr. Mikyoung Kim is a Faculty Researcher at Hiroshima Peace Institute/Hiroshima City University in Japan...

Leah Kimmerly is a Research Analyst at the Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis...

Dr. Eugene Kogan is currently a guest researcher at the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. He is a defense industry analyst with expertise on Russia, Eastern Europe, Israel and China...

Jiri Kominek is a Prague-based independent journalist and consultant who regularly contributes to the Jane's Information Group and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He is a specialist in defense, security, and economic issues in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics...

Dr. I-Chung Lai is currently the director of the Office of China Affairs of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Taiwan...

Dr. Willy Wo-Lap Lam is a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. He has worked in senior editorial positions in international media including Asiaweek newsmagazine, South China Morning Post, and the Asia-Pacific Headquarters of CNN...

Dr. Namju Lee is a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and an associate professor in the department of Chinese studies at Sungkonghoe University in South Korea...

Dr. Philip I. Levy is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. From 2003 to 2005, he was Senior Economist for Trade for the President's Council of Economic Advisers...

Dr. Joanna Lewis is the Senior International Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. From 2000-2005, Dr...

Dr. Cheng Li is the William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College in New York and a Visiting Fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Dr...

Dr. Nan Li is a visiting senior fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. He is the editor of Chinese Civil-Military Relations (Routledge, 2006)...

Robyn Lim is Professor of International Relations at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan, and the author of "The Geopolitics of East Asia"...

Cheng-yi Lin, Ph.D., is the former Chairman of the Institute for Taiwan Defense and Strategic Studies and currently a Research Fellow in the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica...

Dr. Chong-Pin Lin is the President of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies and a professor in the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies at Tamkang University...

Mr. Joseph E. Lin is the former Associate Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation. He is the co-founder of the Johns Hopkins University East Asian Forum & Review and currently serves as a member of its Board of Advisors...

Toby Lincoln is a researcher in corporate social responsibility and reputations management...

Fu-Kuo Liu, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University. He was 2006-2007 visiting fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, the Brookings...

Dr. Xingzhu Liu (M.D., Ph.D., MPH) is a principal scientist with Abt Associates Inc. and has more than 20 years of experience in health economics and public health. Prior to joining Abt Associates, Dr...

Christine Loh is the CEO of Civic Exchange, an independent non-profit think tank, which has worked with numerous surveying experts to track public opinion throughout the campaign period...

Ahmad Lutfi is a political and terrorism analyst, and a Middle East specialist based in Ottawa, Canada...

Daniel C. Lynch is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Taiwan's Self-Conscious Nation-Building Project and the forthcoming book, The International Dimension of Asian Democratization: "Recentering" Thailand, China, and Taiwan...

Dr. Mohan Malik is Professor of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu. The views expressed here do not reflect the official policy or position of the Center or the U.S. Department of Defense...

Yufeng Mao is a Ph.D. candidate at George Washington University. She is currently researching Sino-Arab relations...

Peter Mattis is a Program Associate at The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) in Seattle. The views expressed here are his own, and do not represent NBR...

Dr. Andrew McGregor is the director of Aberfoyle International Security in Toronto, Canada...

Rear Admiral Eric A. McVadon retired after serving at the U.S. embassy in Beijing and has been a consultant on East Asian security affairs for various DoD and intelligence organizations for the past 15 years...

Dr. Qingyue Meng (MD, PhD) is a professor of Health Economics at the Center for Health Management and Policy, Shandong University, China. He is also a member of the Ministry of Health’s “Experts Committee on Policy and Management” as well as “Advisory Committee on Tuberculosis Control...

Wangchuk Meston, a researcher with International Campaign for Tibet, is a human rights advocate and has been involved in field research relating to refugees, migration and population transfer in Tibet, including the World Bank project in Qinghai Province...

Greg Mills, Ph.D., heads the Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa, and during 2008 is on secondment to Rwanda as the ‘Strategic Adviser to the President...

Jonathan Mirsky, was the China correspondent of The Observer [London] and East Asia Editor of The Times [London]. In 1989 he was named the British editors' International Journalist of the Year for his reporting from Tiananmen. He lives in London...

Ronald N. Montaperto recently retired as Dean of Academics at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. He now lives and works as an independent consultant in Washington, D.C...

James P. Muldoon, Jr. is Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Change and Governance, Rutgers University, Newark...

Brigadier Vijai K Nair VSM (retired) is a defense analyst specializing in nuclear strategy formulation and author of two books, including "Nuclear India...

Professor M. D. Nalapat is director of the School of Geopolitics of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India...

Nathan Nankivell is Senior Researcher at the Office of the Special Advisor Policy at Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of Canada’s Department of National Defense...

Tarique Niazi teaches Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He specializes in Resource-based Conflicts. He may be reached via email: niazit@uwec...

Matthew Oresman is the Director of the China-Eurasia Forum and has published widely on China-Central Asia relations. More detailed recommendations of how the United States can cooperate with China in Central Asia will be published in the May edition of the CEF Monthly, available online at www...

Dr. Keun-Wook Paik is a London-based specialist on Sino-Russian oil and gas relations and is currently an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He is the author of “Gas and Oil in Northeast Asia” and co-author of “China Natural Gas Report...

Jagannath P. Panda is a researcher from the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, India, where he studies Chinese Military affairs and Sino-Indian Relations...

Yuan Peng is Deputy Director at the Institute of American Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations and former Visiting Fellow at the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) at the Brookings Institution...

Sebastien Peyrouse is a Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an Associate Scholar at the Institute for International and Strategic Research (Paris, France)...

Kevin Pollpeter is China Program Manager at Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis...

Samir Ranjan Pradhan, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher in the GCC Economics and Gulf-Asia Program at the Gulf Research Center, Dubai...

Mr. Preiss is chief investment strategist for CFC Securities in Hong Kong, and a guest lecturer at the Graduate School of the People's Bank of China, the Chinese central bank...

Colonel Susan M. Puska (retired) is a former U.S. Army Attache. She currently works for Defense Group, Inc., in Washington, D.C...

Dr. William Ratliff is a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an adjunct fellow at the Independent Institute...

Shelley Rigger is the Brown Associate Professor of Political Science at Davidson College. She is the author of two books on Taiwan politics, "Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy" and "From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party...

Morris Rossabi is the author of Khubilai Khan and numerous other books on China and Mongolia. His latest book, Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists (University of California Press, 2005) focuses on developments in Mongolia since the collapse of communism in 1990...

Igor Rotar is Central Asia correspondent for Forum 18 News Service

Dr. Denny Roy is an Asian security analyst based in Honolulu...

Ambassador Peter Yoshiyasu Sato served as the Japanese Ambassador to Beijing from 1995 to 1998. He is currently the vice president of Japan-China Friendship Association and serves as an advisor to the Tokyo Electric Power Company and Shiseido Co...

Dr. Phillip C. Saunders is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies...

Dr. Andrew Scobell is Associate Professor of International Affairs at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He was previously Associate Professor in the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S...

Kevin C. Scott is the Center Administrator of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution...

Dr. Yitzhak Shichor is Professor of East Asian Studies and Political Science at the University of Haifa, and Senior Fellow, the Harry S Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel...

Erich Shih is currently the Washington Bureau Chief of TVBS Network, a leading cable news channel in Taiwan. From 2003-2004, he was a Visiting Fellow with the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) at the Brookings Institution...

Victor Shih is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. His areas of expertise are Chinese political economy, banking reforms, and privatization...

During his 37 years at the Department of State, David Shinn served as Desk Officer for Somalia, Djibouti, and assistant for Ethiopia, State Department coordinator for Somalia during the U.S. intervention, Director of East and Horn of African Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S...

Stephen Shue is Senior Researcher of Boodc, a knowledge-based advisory firm in China

Sharif Shuja is Research Associate in the Global Terrorism Research Unit at Monash University in Australia...

Thomas M. Skypek is a Washington-based defense analyst who specializes in military transformation, deterrence and U.S. defense policy. He has supported research and analysis efforts for the Departments of Defense, Energy and Central Intelligence Agency...

Anthony L. Smith is an Associate Research Professor at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, U.S. Pacific Command, the U.S...

Dr. Anton Smitsendonk is currently commissioner for Thailand and Indonesia in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and was previously Ambassador of the Netherlands to China and later to the OECD in Paris...

Scott Snyder is a Senior Associate with The Asia Foundation and Pacific Forum CSIS. The views expressed here are personal views. He can be reached at ssnyder@asiafound-dc.org...

Camilla T. N. Soerensen is a research fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is currently a visiting research fellow in the China Studies program at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies...

Dan Southerland is the Vice President of Programming and Executive Editor of Radio Free Asia (RFA). Prior to joining RFA, he was The Washington Post's bureau chief in Beijing from 1985 to 1990. He received a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1990 for his coverage of Tiananmen and an Edward R...

Harvey Stockwin has been reporting and analysing Asian developments since 1955. Currently he broadcasts a weekly 15-minute talk "Reflections From Asia" for Radio Television Hong Kong, contributes to the Japan Times, and is the East Asia correspondent of The Times Of India...

Dr. Ian Storey is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore...

Mr. Steven Y. Sun is currently the head China analyst for G7 Group, a Washington-based political and economic research and advisory firm...

Ian Taylor is an Associate Professor in the School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa...

Dr Eric Teo Chu Cheow, a business consultant and strategist based in Singapore, is also Council Secretary of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA)...

Chris Thompson is the research and administrative manager at the Brenthurst Foundation...

Drew Thompson is the Director of China Studies and Starr Senior Fellow at The Nixon Center in Washington, DC...

John Tkacik is Research Fellow in China Policy in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation

John Tkacik is Research Fellow in China Policy in the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation...

Dr. Sergei Troush is the Senior Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is specializing in China's foreign and domestic politics, China's energy and security strategy, and Russian policy in Asia Pacific...

JianJun (Kevin) Tu (jjtu@mkja.ca) is a Vancouver-based senior energy and environmental consultant, and a research associate of the Canadian Industrial Energy End-Use Data and Analysis Centre...

Dr. Jennifer L. Turner has directed the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since 1999. In addition to editing the yearly publication, the China Environment Series (www.wilsoncenter...

Willem van Kemenade is a visiting senior fellow with The Netherlands Institute of International Relations, specializing in China’s global strategic relations...

Mr. von Pfeil is chairman and CEO of Commercial Economics in Hong Kong...

Arthur Waldron is the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania...

Cynthia Watson is a Professor at the National War College. The views expressed in this article are those of Cynthia Watson, not those of the National War College, Institute for National Strategic Studies or any U.S. Government agency...

Wang Wei-fang is the Counselor of Research at the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission in Taiwan. She is also Assistant Professor at Lung-hwa University...

Dr. Richard Weitz is a Senior Fellow and Director of Program Management at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC...

David G. Wiencek is President of International Security Group, Inc., and co-editor of Asian Security Handbook: Terrorism and the New Security Environment (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005)...

Chen Yali is the Editor-in-Chief of Washington Observer, an independent Chinese-language weekly magazine on American foreign policy and politics based in Washington DC...

Marat Yermukanov is a journalist working for the Russian-language private newspaper "Panorama Nedely" in Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan, and is also a regional correspondent for the Almaty-based national weekly "Panorama...

Jing-dong Yuan, Ph.D., is Director of Research for the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he is also an Associate Professor of International Policy Studies...

Chris Zambelis is an associate with Helios Global, Inc., an international political and security risk analysis and management firm based in the Washington, DC area. He specializes in Middle East politics...

Arnold Zeitlin is the Managing Director at Editorial Research & Reporting Associates (ERRA) and Visiting Professor for the Department of Journalism at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies...

Mr. Zhang Xuegang is an Associate Professor in China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR). He specializes in Southeast Asian security studies and China-U.S.-ASEAN trilateral relations...