David Aikman, former Time magazine Beijing bureau chief, is an author, journalist, and foreign policy consultant. After more than two decades with Time magazine - reporting from more than fifty countries, and interviewing such figures as Boris Yeltsin, Billy Graham, Manuel Noriega, and Mother Teresa - he became a freelance writer and commentator. He has written for Foreign Affairs, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, as well as several books on subjects ranging from Mikhail Gorbachev to the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. He lives in Virginia with his family.