Dr Xue Gong

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.

• China’s Economic Diplomacy
• Chinese Overseas Investments
• State-Firms Relations
• China-ASEAN Relations
• China’s CSR Activities

Commentaries

• CO17096 | Belt and Road Initiative - China’s Belt and Road Forum: What Now?

  17 May, 2017

• CO16228 | Chinese Corporate Players in the South China Sea: Complicating the Disputes?

  14 September, 2016

Edited Books / Special Issues

• Securing the Belt and Road Initiative: Risk Assessment, Private Security and Special Insurances along the New Wave of Chinese Outbound Investments (with Alessandro Arduino), Eds. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
• Securing the Belt and Road Initiative: Risk Assessment, Private Security and Special Insurances along the New Wave of Chinese Outbound Investments (with Alessandro Arduino), Eds. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Journal Articles

• "The Belt & Road Initiative and China’s influence in Southeast Asia" in The Pacific Review, nil, nil, 2018, 1-31
• "The Role of Chinese Corporate Players in China’s South China Sea Policy" in Contemporary Southeast Asia, 40, 2, 2018, 301-26
• Gong Xue. Economic Statecraft : An Assessment of China’s Search for Influence in Southeast Asia, International Public Policy Studies国際公共政策研究 (Japan), Volume 22, Number 1, 2017
• Asymmetric Economic Interdependence and the South China Sea Disputes, Spring 2014, Vol XVI, No. 1, Harvard Asia Quarterly

Chapters in Edited Books

• Gong Xue. 2018. "China Power Investment in Myanmar" in Securing the Belt and Road Initiative: Risk Assessment, Private Security and Special Insurances along the New Wave of Chinese Outbound Investments Edited by Alessandro Arduino and Xue Gong, Palgrave Macmillan,
• Gong Xue. China’s Economic Inducement towards Vietnam: What lies ahead? In China’s Economic Statecraft : Co-optation, Cooperation, and Coercion. Edited by Mingjiang Li, World Scientific 2017

Op-Eds

• Why Some in South-east Asia Still have Reservations about China’s Belt and Road Initiative, TODAY, 20 March 2018
• Gong Xue, "Welcome to Conflict Tourism: How Chinese State Firms are Using the South China Sea", South China Morning Post, 19 September 2016, available at http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2020096/welcome-conflict-tourism-how-chinese-state-firms-are-using
• Gong Xue. "'Land Kings': China's Frenzied Property Deals", The Diplomat, July 2016
• Time for Action: Chinese Companies and “One Belt One Road”, IPP Review, 10 June 2016
• Gong Xue “When the Party Ends-China’s leaps and stumbles after the Beijing Olympics,” No. 6, Spring 2015, Journal of Asian Politics and History