Ryan Hass is a fellow and the Michael H. Armacost Chair in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where he holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. He is a nonresident affiliated fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. From 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China and Mongolia at the National Security Council staff. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Robert Williams is a senior research scholar, lecturer, and the executive director of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor at Lawfare. He focuses on U.S.-China relations and Chinese law and policy, with particular interests in technology policy and national security. His recent research and Track II dialogues cover issues of cybersecurity, trade and investment policy, technology governance, and international law. Williams holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Shichen Tian is the Vice President and Director of the Center for International Law of Military Operations at Grandview Institution. He was the former Director of the Division for Crisis Management and Media Relations, the Information Office of the Ministry of National Defense, where he was responsible for the crisis management and media coverage of major military operations and incident involving foreign militaries.