Stefanie Kam Li Yee obtained her doctoral degree from the Australian National University. She is Assistant Professor at the China Programme, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has published a peer-reviewed article on China’s securitization, surveillance and de-extremization in Xinjiang in International Affairs. Her commentaries have appeared in platforms such as The National Interest, East Asia Forum, Channel News Asia, TODAY and The Diplomat.

• Chinese politics

Commentaries

• Economic, Political and Security Imperatives in Xi Jinping’s Third Term

  20 October, 2022

• CO15160 | Thailand’s Uighur Refugees: Security Implications for Southeast Asia

  29 July, 2015

• CO14177 | Indonesian and Malaysian IS Supporters: Need for ‘Soft’ Approach

  10 September, 2014

Annual Reviews

• Selected Essays by RSIS Researchers - 2022

  16 January, 2023

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 14 Issue 02

  03 March, 2022

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 8, Issue 01

  04 January, 2016

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 08

  17 September, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 05

  01 June, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 04

  01 May, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 02

  01 March, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 02

  01 March, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 01

  01 February, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 10

  01 November, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 10

  01 November, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 9

  01 October, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 8

  01 October, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) – Volume 6, Issue 6

  01 July, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) – Volume 6, Issue 3

  01 April, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 3

  01 March, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 3, Issue 1

  03 January, 2011

IDSS Paper

• IP23083 | China’s Global Initiatives: Geopolitical, Economic, and Domestic Challenges

  21 November, 2023

• IP23079 | China-Myanmar Transnational Criminal Networks and China’s Overseas Interests

  14 November, 2023

• IP23015 | Domestic Politics and the US-China Chip War

  15 February, 2023

Journal Articles

• “Securitization, Surveillance and ‘De-extremization’ in Xinjiang” (with Michelle Clarke) in International Affairs, 2021
• “Securitization, Surveillance and De-extremization in Xinjiang” (with Michael Clarke) in International Affairs, Volume 97, No. 3, 2021. pp. 625 – 642

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Combating the Three Evil Forces on the Silk Road: Uyghur Terrorism and Chinese Security Diplomacy” in Michael Clarke, Matthew Sussex and Nick Bisley (Eds.), The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific. Minneapolis: Lexington Books, 2020, 71-89
• “China’s Security Imperatives and Violence in Xinjiang” in Irm Haleem (Ed.), Normalising Violence. London: Routledge, 2020, 50-63
• “Uyghur Cross-border Movement into Southeast Asia: Between Resistance and Survival” in Michael Clarke (Eds.), Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China. London: Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2018, 173-186
• “China and the Threat of Terrorism” in Hoo Tiang Boon (Eds.), Chinese Foreign Policy Under Xi. London: Routledge, 2017, 189-205
• “Singapore’s Approach to Counter Terrorism and Extremism” in Dr Beatrice Gorawantschy, Professor Rohan Gunaratna, Megha Sarmah, Patrick Rueppel, Countering Daesh Extremism – European and Asian Responses. Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2016, 139-151

Op-Eds

• “China’s Counterterrorism Involvement in Southeast Asia under the Global Security Initiative”, Carnegie, 28 June 2023
• “G7 initiative to counter China’s Belt and Road heats up competition – for the better”, Channel News Asia, 18 July 2022
• “Could the ISIS-K and Al Qaeda Rivalry Impact China’s Plans for Afghanistan?”, The National Interest, 6 November 2021
• “China’s long march with tech firms just got started” (with Dylan Loh), Channel News Asia, 25 October 2021
• “Could the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan inspire extremists in Southeast Asia?” (with Kumar Ramakrishna), TODAY, 23 September 2021
• “The fall of Afghanistan and its implications for China”, East Asia Forum, 21 September 2021
• “The evolution of China’s ‘preventive counterterrorism’ in Xinjiang” (with Michael Clarke), Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, 3 December 2020
• “Xinjiang and the Stability Paradox”, The Diplomat, 16 August 2018
• “Indonesian and Malaysian IS Supporters: Need for ‘Soft’ Approach” (with Sugara, R), East Asia Forum, 26 September 2014