Anton Ponomarenko is a master’s candidate in East Asian Regional Studies (MARSEA Program) at Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), where he conducts research on US-Sino-Russian relations, the effects of the war in Ukraine on US-Sino-Russian relations, political economy in China, and Korean Peninsula relations. He received a Davis Fellowship in 2023 and obtained his BA in Economics from Fudan University in 2022.