Sun Chenghao

Fellow, Center for International Security and Strategy of Tsinghua University; Munich Young Leader 2025

Lucio Blanco Pitlo III

President of Philippine Association for Chinese Studies, and Research Fellow at Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation

Dan Steinbock

Founder, Difference Group

Brian Wong

Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Fellow at Centre on Contemporary China and the World, HKU and Rhodes Scholar

David Shambaugh

Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science, and International Relations; Director of China Policy Program, George Washington University

Nong Hong

Executive Director, Institute for China-America Studies; Senior Fellow, Beijing Club for International Dialogue

Xiao Bin

Deputy Secretary-general, Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, Chinese Association of Social Sciences

Eka Khorbaladze

Research Associate, Ng Teng Fong · Sino Group Belt and Road Research Institute

Warwick Powell

Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology

Christopher A. McNally

Professor of Political Economy, Chaminade University

Mallie Prytherch

Manager of Research Affairs, Centre on Contemporary China and the World, University of Hong Kong

Da Wei

Director of Center for International Strategy and Security; Professor at Tsinghua University