Brian C. Chao is an assistant professor in the Naval War College's National Security Affairs Department and a research fellow with the United States Military Academy's Modern War Institute. He studies great-power politics and China's rise, naval power and geostrategy, and US Indo-Asia-Pacific defense and foreign policies. Brian's work appears in Navies in Multipolar Worlds: From the Age of Sail to the Present (Routledge, 2021), International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and Territory, Politics, Governance; he has also written for the China Brief, The Diplomat, the East Asia Forum, The National Interest, and the US Naval Institute, among others. Brian holds an AM and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, an AB in Government from Dartmouth College, and certificates in Mandarin Chinese from Peking, Tsinghua, and the National Taiwan Universities.
Brian Chao

Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval War College
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