Economic Statecraft

“China’s Economic Statecraft Is Working: Why Beijing Can Succeed Even With an Imperfect Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, January 2026.

“The Old Logic Behind China’s New Economic Weapons,” with Viking Bohman and Victor Ferguson, The Washington Quarterly, September 2025.

“China’s Elastic Export Controls,” The Wire China, July 13, 2025.

“China’s sanctions gambit: Formal and informal economic coercion in the second trade war,” with Viking Bohman and Victor Ferguson, Swedish National China Centre Brief, June 18, 2025.

“China Is Using Its Market Power To Influence Foreign Policymaking,” ProMarket, Chicago Booth Stigler Center, June 16, 2025.

“How Washington is Ceding its Geoeconomic Edge to China,” Global Policy At a Glance, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, May 30, 2025.

“China’s Economic Statecraft and Implications for the Open Economic Order,” Gates Forum III - Sanctions and the Symphony of Power: Revitalizing American Economic Statecraft, November 2024.

“The Extent (and Limits) of China’s Economic Influence,” The Diplomat, March 18, 2024.

“China’s Perspective on Economic Security,” Korea Policy (Dec 2023).

“China’s Economic Statecraft: Lessons Learned from Ukraine,” The Washington Quarterly, 46:1, p.121-136 (Spring 2023).

“How Not to Win Allies and Influence Geopolitics: China’s Self-Defeating Economic Statecraft,” Foreign Affairs, May/June 2021. (Winner of Best Policy Article on U.S. Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy, 2021 America in the World Consortium Article Prize competition)

“Trading for Influence?” Strategic Trade series, Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 22, 2020.

“China’s Economic Statecraft under Xi Jinping,” Revolution or Evolution? Xi Jinping and the Future of China’s Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution, January 22, 2019.

“Chinese Perspectives on Economic Diplomacy,” The Asan Forum, September 2016.