Lobsang Tsering is a Senior Research Associate on Chinese Politics at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis (CCA). Before joining CCA, he worked as a political specialist for 20 years at the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu (2003-2020) and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing (2020-2023). He holds a PhD in World History from Sichuan University of China where he studied great power politics in the Indo-Pacific Region.