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Dennis Unkovic is an international lawyer, author and business consultant. Over the course of his career, Unkovic has advised corporations and individuals in the United States, Asia and Europe on complex business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, supply chain issues, and international dispute resolution. He has traveled to 64 countries on behalf of clients and professional organizations, most frequently to People's Republic of China and Japan. The author of twelve books and numerous articles, Unkovic is currently a partner in the law firm of Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP in Pittsburg Pennsylvania. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Michael Quinn Sullivan is the publisher of Texas Scorecard. He is a native Texan, a graduate of Texas A&M, and an Eagle Scout. Previously, he has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine contributor, Capitol Hill staffer, and think tank vice president. Michael and his wife have three adult children, a son-in-law, and a dog. Michael is the author of three books, including "Reflections on Life and Liberty." Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Gordon Chang is the author of Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World, released by

Random House in January 2006. Showdown focuses on nuclear proliferation in general and the North

Korean crisis in particular. His first book is The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, August 2001).

He is a columnist at The Daily Beast.

Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as

Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law

firm Baker & McKenzie.

His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,

the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, The Weekly Standard,

National Review, and Barron's. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Jim Fanell is a retired U.S. Navy captain, serving twenty-nine-years in the military. He is the former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Government Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and Founding Member of the Committee on Present Danger China.

Bradl Thayer, Ph.D., is a founding member of the Committee on Present Danger China and a former visiting fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Solomon Yue Jr. is an American Republican Party activist and businessperson. He is the founder and vice chairman and CEO of Republicans Overseas and a Republican national committeeman from Oregon Republican Party. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Commissioner Leland R. Miller is the co-founder and CEO of China Beige Book.

A noted authority on China’s economy and financial system, he is a frequent commentator on media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg TV, CNN, and FOX Business, and he has served as guest host of two of the financial world’s top morning news shows, CNBC Squawk Box and Bloomberg Surveillance. His work is featured regularly in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post and many others.

Before co-founding China Beige Book in 2010, Leland was a capital markets attorney based out of New York and Hong Kong and worked on the deal team at a major investment bank. He holds a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Hardy C. Dillard fellow and editor-in-chief of the International Law Journal; a master’s degree in Chinese History from Oxford University; a BA in European History from Washington & Lee University; and a graduate Chinese language fellowship from Tunghai University (Taiwan). He returned to W&L as the Williams School’s Executive-in-Residence in 2015.

Leland is an elected member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, an elected life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of the Global Interdependence Center, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council.

Commissioner Miller was appointed by Speaker Mike Johnson for a term expiring December 31, 2025. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Mark Clifford is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, the former executive director of the Asia Business Council, and a former board member at Next Digital. He is editorial chair of the Asian Review of Books, and served as editor in chief of both English-language papers in Hong Kong, The Standard and the South China Morning Post. An honors history graduate of UC Berkeley and a Walter Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University, he holds a Ph.D. in Hong Kong history from the University of Hong Kong. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Harry Moser founded the Reshoring Initiative to help bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Largely due to the success of the Reshoring Initiative, Harry was inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame 2010 and was named Quality Magazine’s Quality Professional of the year for 2012. Harry participated in President Obama’s 2012 Insourcing Forum at the White House, won the Jan. 2013 The Economist debate on outsourcing and offshoring, and received the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Industry Advocacy Award in 2014.

Harry is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New Yorker and USA Today and seen on Fox Business, MarketWatch and other national TV and radio programs. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Engineering at MIT in 1967, as well as an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1981.

Harry and the Reshoring Initiative focus primarily on bringing back as much manufacturing as possible, at the current U.S. level of competitiveness. Secondarily, they work to improve U.S. competitiveness, by advocating for needed policy changes and by strengthening the U.S. skilled workforce. Harry serves on the board of MSSC (Manufacturing Skill Standards Council), a leading manufacturing credentialing organization. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

Jacob Helberg is a senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he is authoring a forthcoming book, Wires of War, on technology policy, China, and U.S. national security. The book is expected to be published in 2021.

Helberg is also co-chairing the Brookings Institution China Strategy Working Group, where is helping support and lead research efforts focused on China’s intentions, foreign policy, and what the right long-term U.S. strategy should be to meet the challenge. Helberg is also a co-chair of the Brookings Institution U.S.-France Working Group on China, focused on reinvigorating the transatlantic alliance and the bilateral U.S.-France relationship vis-à-vis the global advance of autocracy and the rise of China. He is a senior member of the National Security Action Network and a member of the Manufacturing Leadership Council at the National Association of Manufacturers. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW

David Moschella is a Research Fellow at the Leading Edge Forum where he explores the global business impact of internet technologies, with a particular focus on disruptive business models, industry restructuring, and machine intelligence. He is a well-known speaker, writer, and thought leader, and is the author of two previous books – Waves of Power (Amacom, 1997) and Customer-Driven IT (Harvard Business School Press, 2003). Previously, he was head of worldwide research for IDC, the largest market analysis firm in the information technology industry. David lives in Boston, MA. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaDeskFNW