RADM Eric A. McVadon USN (Ret), Director of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis Inc.
Rear Admiral McVadon was the U.S. defense and naval attaché at the American Embassy in Beijing from August 1990 until July 1992. He retired from the Navy in 1992 and is consulting, researching, writing, and speaking in North America and Northeast Asia on Asian security affairs, Chinese military matters, and specific security issues involving China, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, South Asia, the Korean Peninsula, and the South China Sea. He works extensively with the U.S. policy and intelligence communities and the Department of Defense