Jing Huang is Lee Foundation Professor on U.S. – China Relations and Director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He is an internationally recognised expert on Chinese politics, China's foreign relations and security issues in Asia –Pacific. He has written two books and numerous journal articles, book chapters, policy papers and op-eds on Chinese politics, China's foreign policy, the military, US-China relations, and security issues in Asia-Pacific.
Alexander Korolev is Research Fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Concurrently, Alex has been an Assistant Professor of political science at the School of Asian Studies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia, since September 2012. His research interests include international relations theory and comparative politics, political transition in former socialist countries, politics of social reforms, and theory and practice of democracy.