Hankuk University of Foreign Studies - Reece Jones is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a professor in and the chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of award-winning books, Border Walls: security and the war on teerror in the United States, India, and Israel (2012), Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move (2016), and White Borders: the history of race and immigration in the United States from Chinese exlusion to the border wall (2021). He has also published dozens of research articles and newspaper columns on the roles that borders and immigration restrictions play. He is the editor in chief of the Journal Geopolitics and lives in Honolulu with his family. Wang, Hongxia is a research professor and the director of Department of Population and Resources and Environmental Economics at the Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Fudan University. She is a member of China Population Association, a council member of Shanghai Economics Association, a chief professor of Metropolis spatial Development Strategy & Policy Research Innovation Think Tank, and a consultant for Shanghai municipal government, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Hebei, Yunan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Tibet. She has published 5 monographs and more than 30 academic papers in CSSCI journals such as “China Population Science”, “Social Science”, and “Shanghai Economic Research.” She has also accomplished more than 10 projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation, National Social Science Foundation, Shanghai Social Science Foundation, and Shanghai Decision-making Consulting Projects Fund. Her research interest includes urban and regional development, industrial economy, energy economics, and environmental issues. Sergey Lukonin is the head of Sector of Economy and Politics of China, Primakov National Research Institu