is a Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California’s School of International Relations. Before entering academia, he was active in nonprofit organizations supporting workers’ rights and improved grassroots governance in China.

is a senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution. He would like to thank Richard Bush, Ryan Hass, and Ken Lieberthal for comments on an earlier draft.

is Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and founder and CEO of Magpie Advisory. She is author of Africa and China: How Africans and Their Governments Are Shaping Relations with China.

is Executive Vice President at Skuchain, a blockchain company. She is also a lawyer and China analyst who served on Secretary Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign as a foreign policy adviser.

is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (on leave). She previously was C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. The author of four books and co-editor of two volumes, her most recent book, The World According to China (Polity Press, 2021), explores China’s foreign policy ambitions and their impact […]

is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, and author of eight books including Cool War: The United States, China, and the Future of Global Competition (Random House 2013).

is a senior policy analyst at American Progress, where he specializes in the Middle East, military affairs, and U.S. national security policy.

is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. His latest book is Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul.

is the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project. He is the author of Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy (2019).

is a staff writer for The Atlantic’s urbanism news site CityLab.