Dr. Cheng Li is director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. Dr. Li is also a distinguished fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at University of Toronto. He is the author of the new book Middle Class Shanghai Reshaping US-China Engagement (May 2021), and the editor (with author Li Chunling) of the forthcoming volume in the Brookings China Thinker’s Series China’s Youth: Increasing Diversity amid Persistent Inequality (September 2021).