Staff
Cindy Zheng is a Policy Analyst on the Security and Foreign Affairs team. Prior to joining the Commission, she was a research assistant at RAND Corporation conducting research on U.S.-China competition across military, security, and political domains.
Staff
Benton Gordon is a Research Assistant on the Economics and Trade team. He previously worked as an editorial assistant at the National Bureau of Asian Research.
Commission Member
Mike Kuiken serves as a Commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission following nearly 23 years in the U.S. Senate. He is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and serves as an advisor to the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP). He is also a member of Anthropic’s National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council, and consults with CEOs, boards, and senior leaders across investment, AI, defense, technology, and multinational firms globally. Commissioner Kuiken was appointed to the Commission by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer for a term expiring December 31, 2025.
Staff
Zoe Merewether is Policy Analyst on the Economics and Trade team and joined the Commission as a Research Assistant in 2024. She has four years of experience in technology, media, and telecommunications corporate and investment banking at institutions focused on China and the broader APAC region. As a graduate student in international economics at the Hopkins Nanjing Center at Nanjing University, Zoe wrote and defended her thesis on Chinese foreign direct investment in Japan’s service economy in Mandarin Chinese.