DAN BLUMENTHAL is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Director of AEI’s Asian Studies program. MIKE KUIKEN is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He previously served as National Security Adviser to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer from 2017 to 2024. RANDY SCHRIVER is Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security. He served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs during the first Trump administration.