Ankit Panda is a senior editor at The Diplomat. He tweets @nktpnd.

Franz-Stefan Gady is an Associate Editor with The Diplomat.

Dr Greg Austin is a Professorial Fellow with the EastWest Institute in New York and a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales (Canberra).

Jeff M. Smith is the Director of Asian Security Programs and the Kraemer Strategy Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC).

Prashanth Parameswaran is Associate Editor at The Diplomat based in Washington, D.C., where he writes mostly on Southeast Asia and Asian security affairs.