Hoo Tiang Boon is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the China Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is concurrently the Coordinator of the Masters in Asian Studies Programme at RSIS; as well as a Faculty Fellow with NTU’s University Scholars Programme. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford.

Dr. Hoo is the author of several publications on China, cross-strait relations and US-China relations. His recent authored or edited books include China’s Global Identity: Considering the Responsibilities of Great Power (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018-2019); Chinese Regionalism in Asia: Beyond the Belt-Road Initiative (New York & London, Routledge, 2021, forthcoming); and Chinese Foreign Policy under Xi (New York & London: Routledge, 2017). His book, China’s Global Identity, has been positively reviewed by several leading international relations and China studies journals, including Political Science Quarterly, the China Quarterly, the China Journal, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, H-Diplo, and Ethics and International Affairs.

Dr. Hoo has been involved in several diplomatic initiatives, including the Singapore-US Strategic Dialogue, the Vietnam-Singapore Security Dialogue, the Singapore-France Dialogue on China, the Korea-Singapore Forum, and the Network of ASEAN Defence and Security Institutions. Dr. Hoo was formerly a visiting fellow at the China Foreign Affairs University, a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and a visiting researcher at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.

• China’s Foreign and Security Policy
• US-China Relations
• China’s International Role
• Cross-strait Relations
• China’s Regional Relations

• Visiting Scholar, China Foreign Affairs University, March 2014
• Visiting Researcher, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, September- December 2011
• Visiting Scholar, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, March-May 2011
• Article Reviewer (Cold War History, Global Governance, Royal United Services Institute Journal, Journal of Asian Politics and History)

Commentaries

• CO16019 | Cross-Strait Relations: No Return to Crisis Mode

  27 January, 2016

• CO15071 | Lee Kuan Yew’s China Wisdom

  30 March, 2015

• CO14146 | Xi-Modi Talks: A New Type of Sino-Indian Relationship?

  24 July, 2014

• CO13137 | G2 or Chimerica? The Growing Institutionalisation of US-China Relations

  23 July, 2013

• CO08048 | Malaysian Lessons for Singapore?

  17 April, 2008

• CO08024 | Mas Selamat Kastari’s Disappearing Act: Assessing the Fallout

  03 March, 2008

• CO07093 | The Security Dimension of Climate Change

  06 September, 2007

• CO06068 | Israel’s Response: A Strategic Misstep with Global Implications?

  24 July, 2006

• CO06068 | Israel’s Response: A Strategic Misstep with Global Implications?

  24 July, 2006

Commemorative / Event Reports

• RSIS Workshop on Geopolitics and Technology

  05 February, 2020

Bulletins and Newsletters

• CENS Cognito | A Brief Look at the "Wild" Side

  19 February, 2008

IDSS Paper

• IP23021 | China in an Age of Great Power Competition

  07 March, 2023

Authored Books

• China’s Global Identity: Considering the Responsibilities of Great Power. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2018

Journal Articles

• “Caught in the Middle? Middle Powers Amid US-China Competition” (with Sarah Teo) in Asia Policy, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2022. pp. 59-76
• “Strategic Ambiguity and the Trumpian Approach to China–Taiwan Relations” (with Hannah Sworn) in International Affairs, 96, 6, 2020. 1487-1508
• “New Trends in Chinese Foreign Policy” (with Li Mingjiang, and James Char) in Asian Security, 13, 2, 2017. 81-83
• Hoo Tiang Boon, “The Hedging Prong in India’s Evolving China Strategy”, Journal of Contemporary China, (April 2016). DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2016.1160527

Edited Books / Special Issues

• Chinese Regionalism in Asia: Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative (with Jared Morgan Mckinney), Eds. : Routledge, 2022
• China’s Omnidirectional Peripheral Diplomacy (with Jianwei Wang), Eds. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2019
• Chinese Foreign Policy Under Xi. New York: Routledge, 2017

Op-Eds

• “Xi-Biden Summit: Finding the Contours of Responsible competition”, The Straits Times, 18 November 2021
• “How will the Biden Administration Handle China–Taiwan Relations?” (with Hannah Sworn), Medium, 27 November 2020
• Hoo Tiang Boon and James Char. “台海危机不会重现,” Lianhe Zaobao, January 23, 2016.
• Hoo Tiang Boon and James Char. “Wither cross-Strait relations?” East Asia Forum, January 29, 2016.
• Hoo Tiang Boon and James Char. “Taiwan-China Ties Set to Cool But will Stay Calm,” The Straits Times, January 22, 2016.
• Hoo Tiang Boon, "'Chindia' Engaged in a New Romance," in Bloomberg Brief, 7 July 2014.

• Speaker, Asia-Pacific Dialogue Series on “China Watching: The View from Southeast Asia”, by Georgetown University, 8 Feb 2022

• AS6022 China’s Foreign and Security Policy
• IR6032 Cross-Strait Relations