Michael Swaine

Senior Associate in the Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Senior Associate in the Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a specialist on China Security issues; former Asia-Pacific Policy Chair in Northeast Asian Security at RAND Corporation

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