Dr. SHAO Yuqun is the Director of the Institute for Taiwan, Hong Kong & Macao Studies and Senior Fellow of the Center for American Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), which is one of the leading think tanks in China on international relations, China’s foreign policy and international strategy. Her main research area includes US global strategy & foreign policy in general and its policy towards Asia Pacific in particular, US policy, and the cross-strait relations, China–US relations and US domestic politics. She also teaches US foreign policy for the SIIS MA program. She is a regular commentator for the CGTN in Beijing, Oriental TV in Shanghai, and also contributes articles and comments for newspapers and websites in China.