Jae-Ho CHUNG is a professor of international relations and Director of the Program on US-China Relations (Asia Center) at Seoul National University. Professor Chung is a graduate of Seoul National University, Brown University, and the University of Michigan where he received his Ph.D. in 1993. Before joining Seoul National University, he taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology during 1993-96, and he was also a CNAPS Fellow at the Brookings Institution during 2002-3. Professor Chung has served on the advisory committee for the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and of Reunification, and the National Security Council. Professor Chung is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Central Control and Local Discretion in China (Oxford University Press, 2000), Between Ally and Partner: Korea-China Relations and the United States (Columbia University Press, 2007), Assessing China’s Power (PalgragveMacMillan, 2015), and Centrifugal Empire (Columbia University Press, 2016). Professor Chung is the recipient of Seoul National University’s Best Researcher Award in 2009 and of the Best Research Book Award by the Korean Association for International Studies in 2012.