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Dr. Lin Chia-lung is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

Imran Khalid is a geostrategic analyst and a senior fellow at Foreign Policy In Focus (USA). As a prolific columnist on international affairs, his work has been featured regularly in publications across the world since 2001. Including The Atlantic, Newsweek, Nikkei Asia, MS NOW, The Hill, Blaze Media, The Diplomat, Brussels Morning, South China Morning Post, Japan Times, Mail & Guardian (South Africa), TAZ (Germany), Brussels Morning, the Jakarta Post and European Business Review, and World Financial Review.

Sow Yi Wen is a PhD candidate at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include Malaysian politics, Malaysian Chinese politics, China–Taiwan relations, and Southeast Asian foreign policy.

Emma Gerhardy is the Lead Program Officer for South Australia's countering violent extremism intervention program within the Department of Human Services. Drawing on experience across frontline policing, government policy and prevention practice, her work focuses on how societies recognise and respond to vulnerability before violence occurs. Emma is also Secretary of Women in International Security Australia (WIIS-A) and an Industry PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, where her research brings coercive control scholarship into dialogue with violent extremism prevention to examine how coercive and relational vulnerability are recognised within an increasingly complex digital landscape.