Professor BO Zhiyue is Director of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Centre (NZCCRC) and Professor of Political Science at Victoria University of Wellington.

David Gitter is a D.C. based consultant on Chinese politics and foreign affairs and editor of the Party Watch weekly intelligence report.

David Volodzko is the national editor for The Korea JoongAng Daily, the sister paper of The International New York Times in South Korea.

Elizabeth Economy is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jin Kai is lecturer at the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Yonsei University in South Korea.

Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London.

Linda van der Horst has been published in Foreign Policy, The Globe and Mail, National Post and openDemocracy.

Shannon Tiezzi is Editor at The Diplomat.

Xie Tao is professor of political science at the School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Yang Hengjun is a Chinese independent scholar, novelist, and blogger.

Zheng Wang is a Carnegie Fellow at New America and the Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.