member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the Board of Trustees of Colorado College from 1999 to 2013 and now is a Life Trustee. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of the National Bureau of Asian Research and U.S.-China Education Trust. He served as enlisted and commissioned officer of the U.S. Army Reserve, was a fireman at Stanford University, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Eta Sigma academic honorary societies. On 27 February 2014, Lampton was part of a panel discussion sponsored by the US-Asia Institute entitled "Sino-Japan Dynamics and Implications for The U.S.-Japan Alliance." His May 2015 speech at The Carter Center is often cited as the earliest serious warning that U.S.-China relations were in serious decline--"The Tipping Point". In January 2015 Lampton was named the most influential China watcher by the Institute of International Relations at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. Researchers chose him after assessing the credentials of 158 China experts. Bibliography Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia, co-author (2020) Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping (2014; reprinted, with a new preface, 2019) The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (2008) Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 (2001) The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, editor (2001) United States and China Relations at a Crossroads, co-editor (1993) Bureaucracy, Politics and Decision-Making in Post-Mao China, co-editor (1992) China Global Presence, co-editor (1988) Policy Implementation in Post-Mao China, editor (1987) Paths to Power: Elite Mobility in Contemporary China (1986; reprinted in 1989) A Relationship Restored, co-author (1986) The Politics of Medicine in China, Health, Conflict and the Chinese Political System (1977) Notes External links Rockefeller Archives Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York. David M. Lampton's records as President of the National Committee on US-China Relations and his interviews with Chinese leaders from the early 1970s into the 2020s. Johns Hopkins SAIS Bio "Promoting U.S. Interests in China: Alternatives to the Annual MFN Review," David M. Lampton, coauthor (NBR Analysis, July 1997) "China in the Year 2020," David M. Lampton, coauthor (Asia Policy, July 2007) "Andrew C. Mertha’s CHINA'S WATER WARRIORS: CITIZEN ACTION AND POLICY CHANGE," David M. Lampton, coauthor (Asia Policy, July 2009) "Power Constrained: Sources of Mutual Strategic Suspicion in U.S.-China Relations" (NBR Analysis, June 2010) "A New Type