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Robert Daly, the Director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, has served as a U.S. diplomat in Beijing; as an interpreter for Chinese and U.S. leaders, including President Carter and Secretary of State Kissinger; as head of China programs at Johns Hopkins, Syracuse, and the University of Maryland; and as a producer of Chinese-language versions of Sesame Street. Recognized East and West as a leading authority on Sino-U.S. relations, he has testified before Congress, lectured widely in both countries, and regularly offers analysis for top media outlets.

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Shihoko Goto is the Deputy Director of the Asia Program, and Director for Geoeconomics and Indo-Pacific Enterprise at the Wilson Cent. She specializes in trade relations and economic issues across the Indo-Pacific, and is also focused on the political developments in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. She is also a columnist for The Diplomat magazine and contributing editor to The Globalist. She was a fellow of the Mansfield Foundation/Japan Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future for 2014 to 2016.

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Bill Drexel is an Associate Fellow for the Technology and National Security Program at Center for a New American Security. His work focuses on the risks of artificial intelligence applications in national defense and tech competition more broadly. Previously, Drexel worked as an internal displacement data officer at UN Migration (IOM), where he focused on humanitarian innovation. Prior to the UN, Drexel was a research associate at the American Enterprise Institute, where he worked on technology competition and Indo-Pacific strategy.

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Channing Mavrellis is Global Financial Integrity’s Illicit Trade Director, focusing on the intersection of illicit financial flows, transnational crime, and international trade. Ms. Mavrellis has over a decade of experience working on issues related to anti-money laundering and countering terrorism financing.

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John Cassara is an expert in anti-money laundering and counter-terror finance, with special expertise in money laundering in the Middle East and the growing threat of alternative remittance systems and forms of trade-based money laundering and value transfer. A 26-year veteran of the federal government intelligence and law enforcement communities, he is an industry advisor for SAS, as well as author and co-author of numerous articles and books.

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Neal Patrick Dunn is an American surgeon and Republican Party politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district since 2017.

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Joel Wuthnow is a senior research fellow in the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs within the Institute for National Strategic Studies at NDU and also serves as an adjunct professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. 

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Sebastian Rotella is an American foreign correspondent, investigative journalist, and novelist.

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John Moody is an American journalist. He served as the executive editor and the executive vice president of Fox News.

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Robert S. Spalding III is a retired United States Air Force brigadier general. He currently serves as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His work focuses on U.S.–China relations, economic and national security, and the Asia-Pacific military balance.

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