Wu Riqiang is an associate professor at the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China, where his research focuses on missile defense, strategic stability, and Sino-US crisis escalation. He is also a visiting fellow at Dartmouth College’s Dickey Center for International Understanding. From 2000 to 2006, he was a missile designer at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation. In 2012 he received a doctorate in political science from Tsinghua University, and he also holds a master’s degree in general mechanics from Harbin Institute of Technology.