Greg Poling, Senior Fellow and Director, Southeast Asia Program and Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Paul Huang, Research Fellow, Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation

Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore

Izzah Ibrahim, Analyst, Foreign Policy and Security Studies Programme of ISIS Malaysia

William Pesek, Columnist, Nikkei Asia

Dr Bridget Welsh, Honorary Research Associate, University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute-Malaysia

Dr Adrian Ang, Research Fellow Coordinator of United States Programme, S S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies