Taiyi Sun (Ph.D., Political Science, Boston University) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Christopher Newport University. He is the lead author of The Myth of War in the Taiwan Strait: Elite Perspectives from Beijing, Taipei, and Washington, amid the YiZhou Dilemma (Lexington 2025), the author of Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism (University of Michigan Press 2023), and is a co-editor and chapter author of Teaching Civic Engagement Globally, a book published by the American Political Science Association in 2021. Sun appears regularly on domestic and international media outlets as a TV commentator, columnist, and expert analyst. He serves as the executive editor of the Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists’ main publication Global China and is the founder of a daily political briefing in Mandarin, Inside the Beltway. Please visit his personal website for more details: www.taiyisun.com