Sheng Lijun is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, Singapore. He received his Master's degree from Australian National University (ANU) and his Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Australia. His research focus has been on China's foreign relations, both when he was at the ANU, and the Australian Defence Force Academy, and since he joined ISEAS in 1995. He has written extensively on this subject, with articles published in the Washington Quarterly, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Security Dialogue, Asian Perspective, the Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, Far Eastern Economic Review (The 5th Column), Contemporary Southeast Asia, Issues and Studies, Pacific Focus, and others. He is also the author of China's Dilemma: The Taiwan Issue (Singapore: ISEAS/London & New York: I.B. Tauris Academic Studies, 2001).