Vinod K. Aggarwal is Distinguished Professor and Alann P. Bedford Endowed Chair in Asian Studies, Department of Political Science; Affiliated Professor, Haas School of Business; Director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC); and Fellow, Public Law and Policy Program, Berkeley Law School, all at the University of California, Berkeley. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business and Politics. His latest book is Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Tai Ming Cheung is director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and a professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego. Dr. Cheung is a long-time analyst of Chinese and East Asian defense and national security affairs, especially defense economic, industrial and science, and technological issues. His latest book is Innovate to Dominate: The Rise of the Chinese Techno-Security State (Cornell University Press, 2022). Dr. Cheung has a PhD in War Studies from King's College, London.