Brian Wong

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

Warwick Powell

Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology

Zhao Long

Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Institute for International Strategic and Security Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)

Xiao Bin

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

Lucio Blanco Pitlo III

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

Richard Javad Heydarian

Professorial Chairholder in Geopolitics, Polytechnic University of the Philippines

Jake Sullivan

Former U.S. National Security Adviser, Professor at Harvard Kennedy School

Nong Hong

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

Sun Chenghao

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

Kemel Toktomushev

Research Fellow, University of Central Asia

Mallie Prytherch

Researcher at Centre on Contemporary China and the World, University of Hong Kong

Nirupama Rao

28th Foreign Secretary, India; former Ambassador of India to China and the United States