Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, former dean at the University of CaliforniaBerkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and the author of a dozen books on China, where he has traveled widely since the mid-1970s. Adm. James O. Ellis Jr., USN (Ret.), is an Annenberg Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he cochairs the Global Policy and Strategy Initiative. His thirty-nine-year navy career included service as carrier battle group commander leading contingency response operations in the Taiwan Strait and as commander of US Strategic Command. Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He cochairs the Hoover Institution's projects on China's Global Sharp Power and on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region.