Taiyi Sun (Ph.D., Political Science, Boston University) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Christopher Newport University. He is the author of  Sino-U.S. Power Play and the Qin Qi Conundrum (Routledge, 2026), 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