2025 Trump, Xi, and the Battle for Global Order

Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020). His writing on contemporary China has appeared recently in Foreign Affairs, the Harvard Business Review, The Spectator, The Critic, and The Guardian. He has commented regularly on China in media and forums around the world, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos. His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics "Meanwhile in Beijing" is available on BBC Sounds. He is co-author, with Sophia Gaston, of the report “Conceptualizing a UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group, 2020). He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History, awarded by the UK Historical Association. He previously taught at Oxford and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Professor Jiang Yi-huah holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Political Science from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University. Born in Keelung, Taiwan, he has served as Associate Research Fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences; Associate Professor, Professor, and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at NTU; and Professor of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong. Between 2008 and 2014, he held various senior government positions, including Minister of the Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission, Minister of the Interior, vice premier, and premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Professor Jiang’s research focuses on political philosophy, liberalism, democratic theory, national identity, and Taiwan’s political development. Among his major publications are Liberalism, Nationalism, and National Identity (Yang-Chih, 1998), Essays on Liberalism and Democracy (Linking Books, 2000), and Nationalism and Democratic Politics (NTU Press, 2003). He has received several accolades, including the Distinguished Teaching Award from NTU (2001) and the Outstanding Research Award from Taiwan’s National Science Council (2002).

Academician at Academia Sinica, Distinguished Research Fellow and founding Director of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, and jointly appointed Professor in the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University. Professor Wu also holds honorary and endowed titles as the inaugural Lo Chia-luen Chair Professor and K.T. Li Chair Professor at National Central University, Honorary Chair Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, Chair Professor at National Chengchi University, and Chair Professor at National Tsing Hua University’s Taiwan Studies Program (TSE).

He previously served as Director of the Preparatory Office and founding Director of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Convener of the Political Science Division at the National Science Council, and President of the Taipei Chinese Political Science Association. His research focuses include political and economic transitions in socialist states, democratization and constitutional design, cross-strait relations, and theories of international relations. More recently, he has spearheaded.