Welcome to the East Asia Hotspots podcast where we invite you to join us for chats with experts and scholars from around the world to talk about contemporary issues in East Asia. I’m the lead facilitator, Richard Haddock with the George Washington University. Support of this podcast comes from the US Department of Education, the Title VI Grant for East Asian Studies at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Our partners at the Elliott School that helped make this podcast happen are the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the GW Institute for Korean Studies.