He was a former Wilson Center fellow (September 2011 to May 2012) and a public policy scholar (June-August 2010). He is the author of Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949-72 (2006). His articles have appeared in Journal of Cold War Studies, Diplomacy & Statecraft, The International History Review, The Chinese Historical Review, Diplomatic History, Cold War History, Asian Perspective, among others. He is at work on a book project with Zhihua Shen, tentatively titled, “Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, and the Myth of Sino-Korean Relations, 1949-1976.”