Kai Quek is Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong. He studies strategic interactions in international relations, with a focus on US-China interactions and special interests in state-to-state signaling, the dynamics of deescalation, and the origins of collective beliefs such as nationalism. Prior research on deescalation introduced real-world crisis management experimentation and strategy-testing for reducing nationalistic backlash and the risk of war. Professor Quek can be reached at quek@hku.hk.