Jie Dalei is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies(IISS), Peking University(PKU), and an associate professor at the School of International Studies of Peking University in Beijing, China. His area of expertise is security studies in general and the China-U.S. relations and cross-Taiwan Strait relations in particular. He received his B.A. degree in Law and Economics and his M.A. degree in Law at Peking University. He got his Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012.