Outputs (7)

Deterrence, Assurance and China’s Agency in its Taiwan Policy (2023)
Journal Article
Tsang, S. (2023). Deterrence, Assurance and China’s Agency in its Taiwan Policy. The asan forum,

Prosper or beggar thy neighbour: Industrial policy effect of free trade zones (2023)
Journal Article
Du, J., King, C., & Shi, X. (2023). Prosper or beggar thy neighbour: Industrial policy effect of free trade zones. PLoS ONE, 18(10), Article e0293444. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293444

Firms that stand to gain from the institutional framework of a free trade zone (FTZ) usually opt for locations in the FTZ region where they could expect higher returns on investment. This concentration of industries in FTZs can result in a reallocati... Read More about Prosper or beggar thy neighbour: Industrial policy effect of free trade zones.

Getting China Right (2023)
Journal Article
Tsang, S. (2023). Getting China Right. Survival, 65(4), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2023.2239057

Under Xi Jinping, China puts regime security and a revived ideology, ‘Xi Thought’, at the core of its foreign policy. This distorts how ‘national interest’ is calculated and impedes China from behaving in the way neoclassical realism suggests a risin... Read More about Getting China Right.

China’s New Foreign Relations Law (2023)
Digital Artefact
Cheung, O. (2023). China’s New Foreign Relations Law

China's new foreign relations law reflects Xi’s “change first, legislate second” approach. Two things stand out in the law. The first is bolstered party authority in foreign policy making (Articles 5 and 9). The second concerns Beijing’s approach tow... Read More about China’s New Foreign Relations Law.

Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? (2023)
Book
Cheung, O. (2023). Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.5053561

This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out through ‘factional model-making’, a norm-bound mechanism for elites of the Chinese Communist Party to c... Read More about Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?.

Tianxia under Xi Jinping: Is China a revisionist or reformist power of the Liberal International Order? (2023)
Digital Artefact
Cheung, O. (2023). Tianxia under Xi Jinping: Is China a revisionist or reformist power of the Liberal International Order?

Is China a revisionist or reformist power in relation to the liberal international order? Is this a matter with which equally valid conclusions can be reached depending on what evidence is used? To shed light on this debate, it is useful to take Xi J... Read More about Tianxia under Xi Jinping: Is China a revisionist or reformist power of the Liberal International Order?.

A New International Order with Asian Features? Ideas from China (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cheung, O. (2023, June). A New International Order with Asian Features? Ideas from China. Presented at Asian and European Perspectives on the Future of the International Order: Cooperation and Multilateralism in a New Era of Geopolitical Competition, jointly organized by the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and Consorci Universitari Menendez Pelayo Barcelona (CUIMPB), Barcelona, Spain