Dr. Kuan-Hsiung Wang received his Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, in 1997. He is currently a professor at the Graduate Institute of Political Science, National Taiwan Normal University. Dr. Wang is actively engaged in maritime legal scholarship, particularly in matters related to the international law of the sea. He serves as President of the Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law and sits on the Board of Directors of the Association of International Relations (ROC). He is the editor of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (English edition), the Chinese (Taiwan) Review of International and Transnational Law (Chinese edition), the Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law, the Asian Yearbook of International Law, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy. His teaching and research interests center on public international law, the law of the sea, maritime disputes in the East and South China Seas, and marine policy. Within these domains, he emphasizes the sustainable utilization of fishery resources and explores the feasibility of dispute resolution through joint development mechanisms. Dr. Wang has held visiting scholar appointments at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada (2007), and the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia (2013). His research has been published in several esteemed academic journals, including Ocean Development and International Law, Pacific Review, and others.

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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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Dr. Chi-Ting Tsai received his J.S.D. from Cornell Law School in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor of International Law in the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He also serves as Director of the Center for China Studies at National Taiwan University. Dr. Tsai’s areas of specialization include maritime security, the law of the sea, marine policy, and international human rights. Over the past five years, he has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, both domestically and internationally, on topics related to the Law of the Sea, including East and South China Sea disputes, maritime governance, and BBNJ Agreement.
Dr. Tsai’s recent research focuses on maritime domain awareness, maritime security and supply chains, transboundary marine protected areas, biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction, maritime autonomous surface ships, and greenhouse gas reduction in shipping. In addition to these environmental and regulatory issues, he has conducted several research projects on submarine cables and marine scientific research. Beyond academic publications, Dr. Tsai regularly contributes policy commentaries for U.S. think tanks such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Global Taiwan Institute on topics concerning maritime security and lawfare. He was also a member of CSIS’s South China Sea Expert working group.

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