China's growing influence in the Pacific
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Dr Gregory S Brown
Dr. Gregory S. Brown is Senior Fellow and Director of Regional Cooperation and Coordination at ASPI USA—the US affiliate of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute - and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Australian, New Zealand & Pacific Studies at Georgetown University. He joined ASPI USA after nearly two decades supporting research, analysis, and outreach programs for the US national security community. Dr. Brown has been a RICE Fellow at the East-West Center, a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne, and an Australian National University Parliamentary Fellow in the Office of the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canberra. In years past, Greg held other teaching and research appointments at Southwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin where he was an Outstanding Graduate Instructor and received his Ph.D. in Government in 2004. His extended family ties stretch from Manila, Melbourne, and Tokyo to Hilo, Palo Alto, and Philadelphia to Copenhagen, Cape Town, and Zurich.
Claire Chu
Claire Chu is a senior China analyst at Janes Group. She specializes in the geopolitical and national security implications of China’s global economic activity. She recently joined Janes in 2022 after the company’s acquisition of RWR Advisory Group, where she was in the same role, leading the firm’s China practice. Claire launched RWR’s Belt and Road Monitor in 2017, which provides a comprehensive biweekly overview of China’s overseas trade and investment activities and policy developments, and served as the editor until 2020. Claire previously held research roles at think tanks including the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin, Germany, the Project 2049 Institute in Arlington, and the Center for the National Interest in Washington, DC. She has also worked on rule of law and governance issues at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and at Human Rights Watch. Claire has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and her commentary has been featured in major media outlets in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Voice of America, Foreign Policy, and Nikkei Asia.
