Richard C. Bush is an American expert on Taiwan and China affairs. He has served in the U. S. Congress, National Intelligence Council, as chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), and has been actively observing international affairs in East Asia for 40 years. Currently, he is a Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Center for East Asia Policy Studies, which he directed for sixteen years. He is also the Chen-fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at Brookings. His research area covers international affairs in East Asia, especially the bilateral relations between U.S. and Taiwan, China, Japan, and Korea.