Dr. Cheng-yi Lin holds a PhD in foreign affairs and has previously worked on the South China Sea and national security issues in Taiwan.

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K. Tristan Tang is a Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation. He is also a Research Fellow at the Taiwan Inspiration Association and a Nonresident Fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research. He is the designer of the KTT’s Wargame, a Kriegsspiel-style simulation system focused on Taiwan Strait contingencies ranging from peacetime quarantine operations to large-scale invasion scenarios. His research focuses on the People’s Liberation Army and Taiwan’s security. In addition to his extensive work for Jamestown’s China Brief, his work has appeared in publications affiliated with the U.S. Air University, U.S. Naval War College, U.S. Army War College, and The Diplomat. His research and wargaming work have been cited or covered by the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission, Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The Economist, Financial Times, The Telegraph, NHK, Taiwan’s Central News Agency, and Liberty Times, among others. He has briefed international counterparts on his research and organized wargames with the U.S. and Japanese militaries and foreign representative offices in Taiwan. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from National Taiwan University and a B.A. in Public Security from Central Police University.

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Dr. Titus Chen is Research Professor and Deputy Director of Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. Dr. Chen’s research interests include Indo-Pacific international relations, Chinese politics and foreign policy, and computational social sciences.

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Dr. Bonnie Yushih Liao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Diplomacy and International Relations at Tamkang University, Taiwan. She received her doctoral degree in Japan and has conducted research on Indo-Pacific regional affairs for many years. Her research focuses on maritime governance, information resilience, public diplomacy, and regional security, with particular emphasis on the evolving security dynamics linking Northeast and Southeast Asia. Her recent work examines maritime coercion and evolving gray-zone challenges, including how regional actors identify, communicate, and respond to coercive activities below the threshold of armed conflict. She is currently developing an analytical framework for Maritime Governance Resilience to explore how regional actors can strengthen governance capacity and resilience in increasingly contested maritime environments. Drawing on academic research and policy experience, her work seeks to contribute to regional cooperation and a rules-based maritime order in the Indo-Pacific.

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