Chris Estep is a Non-Resident Fellow in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has previously served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Affairs,  Special Advisor for National Security Communications to Vice President Kamala Harris, Press Secretary of the House Armed Services Committee, and a Communications Officer at the Center for a New American Security. He received a Master of Arts degree in Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs in 2020, and he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Religion from Eastern Nazarene College in 2018. His commentary has appeared in Defense One, War on the Rocks, Lawfare, Business Insider, The National Interest, and more.