Xue Gong is a research fellow in China Programme of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She holds a PhD in International Political Economy at NTU. Her current research interests include China’s economic diplomacy, China’s Belt and Road Initiative and China-Southeast Asian economic relations. She has contributed to peer-reviewed journals such as the Pacific Review, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Harvard Asia Quarterly, International Public Policy Studies (Japan). She has one co-edited book in Securing the Belt and Road Initiative: Risk Assessment, Private Security and Special Insurances Along the New Wave of Chinese Outbound Investment (Palgrave Macmillan 2018). She has also contributed to several book chapters on China’s economic statecraft, China’s corporate social responsibility and Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia. Her recent journal paper on the corporate actors in the SCS has been covered by Reuters exclusively. She has contributed various Op-Ed articles such as the South China Morning Post, The Diplomat, and so on.
