GUI Yongtao is vice president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, and associate dean and associate professor with tenure of the School of International Studies at Peking University. His research focuses on international relations of East Asia. His recent publications include: “Examining the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from the perspective of clean energy supply chain resilience”(2024); “The U.S.-Japan Economic Security Alliance: Building a System of Collective Resilience” (2023); “Exploring the Changing Relations Between the U.S., Japan and China”(2022); “Economic Statecraft, Economic Security Policy, and New Trends in U.S. and Japan’s Policies toward China” (2021); “Japan and the U.S.-China Strategic Competition: Trade War, Technology War, and the Indo-Pacific Strategy” (2020); “Competing in the Gray Zone: A New Situation in U.S.-Japan Engagement with China” (2019); “The Politics of TPP: The Motivation and Predicament of U.S.-Japan Cooperation” (2017).