Jian Ren HUANG

Dr. Jian Ren Huang (Penname Ge Qiushan) is a well-published active writer focused on reflecting Chinese social-cultural problems besides his retired professional career as a mechanical engineer, software engineer and associate professor. He had an eight-year gulag experience inside one of the labor camps of the Chinese Communist Party due to his dissident viewpoints in his college years.  His writings can be found at https://jhuang22.a2hosted.com/1gonature.aspx  […]

John (Jia Liang) HAN

Dr. John J.L. Han has a background of physics, computer science, fuzzy logics, and artificial intelligence. He is currently an independent researcher focused on political philosophy and theology after a number of research and teaching appointments at Griffith University, Victoria University, DeVry University, Bowie State University and University of Southern Queensland. His working experience in multiple countries enables him a wider-angle cross-cultural perspective. He lives […]

James PALMER

Senior editor at Foreign Policy. Palmer is the author of The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia and The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China. He won the Shiva Naipaul Prize for travel writing in 2003. https://foreignpolicy.com/author/james-palmer/

BG Robert SPALDING

Author of Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept. Retired from the U.S. Air Force as a brigadier general after more than twenty-six years of service. He completed his career as the senior director for strategic planning to the president at the National Security Council, and was the chief architect for the National Security Strategy. He is a former China strategist for […]

Phil THOMAS

Research Fellow and Director of George Mason University’s (GMU) Schar School of Policy and Government’s Global Food Security Project and adjunct professor in GMU’s Honors College.  His courses focus on the impact of social media in the 21st century as a tool of social, political, and economic change. His analysis of the increasing importance of social media in global society addresses the positive and negative […]

Peter TUDDENHAM

President and Executive Director of College of Exploration, former President of International Society for System Sciences. Peter has been a long time research scholar and promoter of system sciences in multiple areas of expertise. https://www.coexploration.org/about.html

Peter T. LEWIS

Co-Founder of the first U.S. Cellular Tel Company “Cellular One”; Inventor of Concept/term “Internet of Things back in 1985, experienced senior telecommunications specialist currently working with the regulatory policies regarding unmanned aircraft systems. A better introduction of him is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWPMDGIJ9qA

Jingsheng WEI

Chairman, Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition; leading Chinese human rights activist; author of “The Fifth Modernization” on the Democracy Wall in Beijing in 1978 and political prisoner of CCP from 1979-1993 and 1994-1997. Interpreter: Ciping HUANG, Executive Director, Wei Jingsheng Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng

Morris (Butch) BOSIN

A manager with Grant Thornton LLP, has more than 40 years of experience leading strategic and performance planning initiatives at federal agencies. He is an adjunct professor of management at the University of Maryland University College Graduate School of Management and Technology.