Andrew Scobell is a distinguished fellow with the China program at the US Institute of Peace. He focuses on US-China relations, China’s armed forces and defense policy and China’s foreign relations with countries and regions around the world—with a particular emphasis on the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Scobell earned a doctorate from Columbia University, a master’s from the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and a bachelor’s from Whitman College. He has authored or co-authored two books, 30 reports and more than 40 journal articles.