Shelley Rigger

Shelley Rigger is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty and Brown Professor of Asian Politics at Davidson College. Shelley has written several books on Taiwan, including "The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China’s Economic Rise" (2021), and "Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse" (2011).

Steven Goldstein

Steven M. Goldstein is an Associate of the Fairbank Center and the director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University. He previously was the Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College from 1968 to 2016. Goldstein’s research interest has been largely related to issues of Chinese domestic and foreign policy.

Michael Swaine

Michael D. Swaine is a Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute's East Asia program. He comes to QI from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he worked for nearly twenty years as a senior fellow specializing in Chinese defense and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian international relations.

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos (Moderator)

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is a senior advisor at the Quincy Institute and editorial director of its online magazine, Responsible Statecraft. Previously she served as executive editor managing editor, and longtime foreign policy/national security writer at the American Conservative magazine. She also spent 15 years as an online political reporter for Fox News.