Newswise — Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a modern Chinese social and cultural historian, with a strong interest in connecting China's past to its present and placing both into comparative and global perspectives.

He can provide expert insight into the current pivot in the power balance between China and the U.S., China's struggle to maintain control of the South China Sea, and various ways in which China could respond to Trump's Taiwan talk.

Wasserstrom is the Chancellor's Professor, History, at the University of California, Irvine.