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Robert S. Ross is currently a professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston College and a research fellow at Fairbank Center for Chinse Studies, Harvard University. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations. He now serves concurrently as a senior advisor to the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Institute of American Studies in Shanghai. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and other prestigious journals. His main research areas include U.S.-China relations, East Asian security, and Chinese security and defense policy.

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Gunter Schubert is from the University of Tübingen, Germany, where he holds the Chair of Greater China Studies. He has over 30 years of field research experience in China, including the mainland and Taiwan and Hong Kong. His research focuses on local governance and policy implementation, state and corporate relations. In recent years, Gunter Schubert is also paying attention to the areas of Chinese foreign policy thinking and peripheral politics. He is also a research professor at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.