Mr. Parello-Plesner is Executive Director at the Alliance of Democracies Foundation in Copenhagen founded by former NATO Secretary General and Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He served as the senior advisor on China and Northeast Asia to the Danish Foreign Ministry from 2005-2009. Parello-Plesner recently published The Battle for Taiwan, a book that argues that the free world should defend Taiwan. He co-authored with Rasmussen a chapter for Matt Pottinger’s recent book on Taiwan The Boiling Moat.