Zhiqun Zhu is Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the China Institute at Bucknell University, USA. A member of the National Committee on US–China Relations, he has written extensively on Chinese foreign policy and US–China relations. Dr. Zhu is one of the first international relations scholars to apply the power transition theory to the analysis of US–China rivalry, in his 2005 book US–China Relations in the 21st Century: Power Transition and Peace (Routledge). He is a columnist for ThinkChina in Singapore. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal China and the World.