Professor Garver spoke specifically about China-Iran issues at this forum (and has a background on Chinese foreign relations and Asian international relations).

The C-SPAN video of this program may be watched here.

Dr. Garver has authored nine books on Sino-Soviet, Sino-American, and Sino-Indian, Sino-Iranian, and Sino-Middle East relations, and nearly one hundred articles on China's foreign relations. He is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, participates frequently in various Asia policy related fora, and has lived for extended periods in China, Taiwan, India, and Pakistan. He speaks Chinese and German. He is the recipient of awards from the U.S. National Academy of Science's Committee on Scholarly Communications with the People's Republic of China, the Fulbright Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, the U.S. Institute for Pakistan Studies, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. He set up, and directed for a number of years, an exchange program between Georgia Tech and Fudan University in Shanghai and a multi-country program on East Asian development. He currently serves on the editorial boards of The China Quarterly, The Journal of Contemporary China, Asia Security, and Issues and Studies.