Zi Yang is a Senior Analyst with China Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He holds a Master of Arts in Asian Studies from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Arts in Global Affairs and History from George Mason University. Prior to joining RSIS, Zi worked for Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies and the United States Institute of Peace. His current research interests include China’s military-civil fusion strategy, military mental health, People’s Liberation Army information warfare, civil-military relations in China, and non-traditional security issues. He has published articles through Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, China Brief, Georgetown Security Studies Review, Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs, The Norwich Review of International and Transnational Crime, Asia Times, East Asia Forum, The Diplomat Magazine, The National Interest, and South China Morning Post. Zi has been a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 2013.

• Chinese Information Warfare and Operations
• China’s Defense Industry
• Civil-military Relations in China
• Military Mental Health
• Non-Traditional Security

RSIS Commentaries

• China’s Renminbi Internationalization

  28 December, 2022

• ASEAN-China COVID-19 Meeting: Why and What’s Next?

  28 February, 2020

• China’s Response to Coronavirus Outbreak: Implications for ASEAN

  22 January, 2020

• The Middle East Effect: How US’ China Policy Will be Influenced

  08 January, 2020

• Iran-Russia-China Trilateral Naval Exercise: China’s New Mideast Strategy?

  06 January, 2020

• CO18093 | China’s Laser Weapons: Future Potential, Future Tensions?

  05 June, 2018

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Character Assassination and the Contemporary Anti-corruption Campaign in the Chinese Military” in Sergei A. Samoilenko, Martijn Icks, Jennifer Keohane, Eric B. Shiraev, Character Assassination and the Contemporary Anti-corruption Campaign in the Chinese Military. United Kingdom: Routledge , 2019, pp. 117 - 130

Working Papers

• Party on the Bridge: Political Commissars in the Chinese Navy (with Jeff Benson), CSIS Report, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 29 June 2020
• Assessing Mental Health Challenges in the People’s Liberation Army, Part 2: Physical Operational Environments and Their Impacts on PLA Service Members, China Brief, Washington D.C., 14 August 2019
• Assessing Mental Health Challenges in the People’s Liberation Army, Part 1: Psychological Factors Affecting Service Members, and the Leadership Response, China Brief, Washington, D.C., 31 July 2019
• Securing China’s Belt and Road Initiative, United States Institute of Peace Special Report, United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C., 26 November 2018

Op-Eds

• “The Invisible Threat to China’s Navy: Corruption”, The Diplomat, 19 May 2020
• “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Relations between China and the Middle East”, Asia Dialogue, 17 March 2020
• “Cracks in the System: COVID-19 in Chinese Prisons”, The Diplomat, 9 March 2020
• “Decoding China’s Cryptography Law”, The Diplomat, 30 October 2019
• “‘PLA Stratagems for Establishing Wartime Electromagnetic Dominance: An Analysis of “The Winning Mechanisms of Electronic Countermeasures”’”, China Brief, 1 February 2019
• “As South China Sea Tensions Rise, China’s Participation in ASEAN Naval Exercise Raises Hope of Calmer Waters” (with Li Mingjiang), South China Morning Post, 6 November 2018
• “China’s Military Health Diplomacy”, The Diplomat, 2 October 2018
• “Vostok 2018: Russia and China’s Diverging Common Interests”, The Diplomat, 17 September 2018
• “China’s State Media is Going Global”, East Asia Forum, 13 May 2018
• “Blinding the Enemy: How the PRC Prepares for Radar Countermeasures”, China Brief, 9 April 2018
• “Are China’s Soldiers Psychologically Fit for Modern Wars?”, The Diplomat, 1 April 2018
• “The Militarization of China’s People’s Armed Police”, Asia Times, 25 March 2018
• “The Ideology Behind China’s Fast-changing Military”, The Diplomat, 24 January 2018