Dr. Yujen KUO is the Director and Professor at the Institute of China and Asia-Pacific Studies of National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. He is also the Vice President of the Institute for National Policy Research, INPR, and also the chairperson of Global Risk Assessment Team, GRAT at INPR. He has served as advisor at Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council since 2016. He is also an advisor to the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce, CNAIC (Taiwan). Dr. Kuo’s main research interests include Japan’s defense industry, U.S.-Japan alliance, Cross-strait relations as well as security issues in the Indo-Pacific region.