Publications

Journal Articles

• Christina Lai, "US-Taiwan Relations and the Future of the Liberal International Order," Parameters 54(1), 51-69, 2024 (peer-reviewed)   

• Christina Lai, “Bound to Lead: US-Taiwan Relations, Security Networks, and The Future of AUKUS,” in International Journal: Canada’s Journal of Global Policy Analysis, online first view, August 2023. (SSCI, peer-reviewed)   

• Christina Lai, “Finding the trade-security nexus: Taiwan’s economic statecraft from 2009 to 2021,” in The Pacific Review, 36 (5), 1067-1093, 2023. (SSCI, peer-reviewed)   

• Christina Lai, “Fear the Fear: The Historical Analogies of Covid-19 in US-China Relations,” in International Politics, 60 (3), 572-597, 2023. (SSCI, peer-reviewed)                 

• Christina Lai, “If It Is Not Socialisation, then What? China’s Institutional Statecraft in the AIIB, ” China: An International Journal 20(3), 1-22, 2022. (SSCI, peer-reviewed)

• Christina Lai, “More Than Carrots and Sticks: Economic Statecraft and Coercion in China-Taiwan Relations from 2000 to 2019,” Politics 42 (3), 410-425, 2022. (SSCI, peer-reviewed)

• Christina Lai, “Realism Revisited: China’s Status-Driven Wars against Koguryo in the Sui and Tang Dynasties,” Asian Security 17 (2), 139-157, 2021. (peer-reviewed)

• Christina Lai, “Soft Power Is not So Soft: Is A Reconciliation between China’s Core Interests and Foreign Policy Practices Possible?” Political Science 72(3), 167-185, 2020. (SSCI, peer-reviewed)

• Christina Lai, “South Korea’s and Taiwan’s Territorial Disputes with Japan, 1990s to 2018,” Asian Survey 60 (3), 583-606, 2020. (SSCI, peer-reviewed)

• Christina Lai, “An Imagined Brotherhood: The Rhetorical Framework and Prospects for China-Taiwan Relations,” Pacific Focus 35 (2), 177-199, 2020. (SSCI, peer-reviewed)

• Christina Lai, “A Coercive Brotherhood: Sino-Vietnamese Relations from the 1990s to 2018,” Journal of Contemporary China 29 (123), 469-486, 2020. (SSCI, peer-reviewed)

• Christina Lai, “Economic Nationalism in South Korea and Taiwan: National Identity and Economic Policy Discourse toward Japan after the WWII,” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs 5 (2), 149-171, 2018. (peer-reviewed)

• Christina Lai, “Rhetorical traps and China’s peaceful rise: Malaysia and the Philippines in the South China Sea territorial disputes,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 19 (1), 117-146, 2019. (SSCI, peer-reviewed) (Academic work prior to the assistance research fellow)

• Christina Lai, “Dancing with the Wolf: Securitizing China-Taiwan Trade in the ECFA Debate and Beyond,” Asian Security 15 (2), 140-158, 2018. (peer-reviewed) (Academic work prior to the assistance research fellow)

• Christina Lai, “Acting One Way and Talking Another: China’s Coercive Economic Diplomacy in East Asia and Beyond,” The Pacific Review 31 (2), 169-187, 2018. (SSCI, peer-reviewed) (Academic work prior to the assistance research fellow)

• Christina Lai, “Identities, Rationality, and Taiwan’s China Policy: The Dynamics of Cross-Strait Exchanges” with Chi-hung Wei, Asian Studies Review 41 (1), 136-154, 2017. (SSCI, peer-reviewed) (Academic work prior to the assistance research fellow)

Book Chapter

• Tse-Kang Leng and Christina Lai, “China’s Multilateral Diplomacy: Researches of the Taiwanese academic society in comparative aspects” Forthcoming in Chung-Li Wu, Wen-Chin Wu, Nien-Chung Chang Liao (eds.), The Status and Prospects of Politics, Taipei: Wu-Nan. (In Chinese)

Policy Related Works

• Christina Lai, "A Chairman of Insecurity: China’s National Security Concept and Its Impacts on Foreign Policy s," Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) in Japan, February 2023.

• Christina Lai, "Bound to Lead: AUKUS and US-Taiwan Relations," Centre for International Policy Studies, October 2022.

• Christina Lai, "Power of the Weak: Taiwan’s Strategy in Countering China’s Economic Coercion," China Brief, Volume 21, Issue 21, November 2021.

• Christina Lai, “Understanding Taiwan and Australia Strategies to counter China’s Sanctions,” Political Science Association, March, 2021.

• Christina Lai, “Is ‘Asian NATO, an Oxymoron? Prospects of NATO’s Political Engagement and Strategic Alignment  in the Asia-Pacific,” The NATO Association of Canada, December 2020.

• Christina Lai, “A Case Study of Recent Social Movements in Hong Kong and Taiwan: Convergence of Counter-Identities amid China’s Rise” Global Taiwan Institute, August 2020.

• Christina Lai, “Killing Two Birds with One Stone? Reconsidering China-Singapore Relations in the Strategic Triangles,” China’s World 3(1), 83-94, 2018.

Op-eds and Media Interviews

• “Xi Jinping’s Suppression of Hong Kong Democracy Pushes Taiwan Further From China,” Bloomberg News, July 5th, 2022.

• “Vietnam - China relations: The 16 gold motto 'still matters',” BBC News, June 2nd, 2020.

• “The Impact of the Hong Kong Protests on the Election in Taiwan,” the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), January 23rd, 2020.

• “How Japan can be a strategic leader in Indo-Pacific,” Asia Times, December 14th, 2018.

• “In China's sixth plenum, Xi strives to polish image abroad,” Asia Times, October 26th, 2016.

 Conference Presentations

1. “The Lost Territory: Glory and Humiliation in China’s Historical Statecraft,” paper presented at the 2023 American Political Science Association (APSA).

2. “What Is The Logic of Rhetorical Appeasement? Assessing the Prospect of China‐Taiwan Peace Agreement,” paper presented at the 2023 International Studies Association (ISA).

3. “Taiwan, AUKUS, and the Liberal International Order”, paper presented at Workshop on “AUKUS Among Democracies: One Year Later,” Canada: Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa, October 2022.

4. “Back to the Future: China Strategic Framing in Hong Kong’s Social Movements,” paper presented at the 2022 American Political Science Association (APSA).

5. “Soft Power Is Not So Soft: An Analysis of Chinese Foreign Policy and Core National Interests,” paper presented at the 2022 International Studies Association (ISA).

6. “The Analogy of Pandemic: US-China Relations in the Era of Covid-19,” paper presented at the 2022 International Studies Association (ISA).

7. “Building Trust and Imagined Community: Solving the Smog Pollution in China-ROK Relations,” paper presented at the 2022 International Studies Association (ISA).

8. “Independence Movement with Adjectives: China’s Understanding of Taiwan’s Identity Formation,” at the 2022 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA).

9. “Norm Grafting in Taiwan and Korea Self-Rule Movements: Uncovering Civility in Japan’s Colonial Era,” at the 2022 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA).

10. "Soft Power in Comparative Perspectives: China's Sharp Power Influences in Foreign Policy," at the An International Symposium on the Centenary of the CCP and Contemporary China, November 12th, 2021.

11. “If Not Socialisation, Then What? China’s Institutional Statecraft in the AIIB,” at the 2021 International Studies Association (ISA).

12. “Soft Power with Adjectives: U.S. and China Policies in Comparative Perspectives,” at the 2021 International Studies Association (ISA).

13. “A Blessing in Disguise: China’s Economic Coercion against East Asian Countries from 2010 to 2020,”  at the Taiwan in the Indo-pacific Region Annual Conference, Hoover Institute at Stanford University, October 2020.

14. “You Are What You Said: South Korea and Taiwan Territorial Disputes with Japan from the 1990s to 2016,” at the China and the Changing Asian Order, IPSAS, Taiwan, January 2020.

15. “A Coercive Brotherhood: Rhetorical Coercion in Sino-Vietnam relations from 1970s to 2018,” at the 2019 American Political Science Association (APSA).

16. “A Genealogy of Soft Power: U.S. and China Policies in Comparative Perspectives,” at the  2019 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA).

17. “You Need to See Me: China’s Denial of Recognition of Taiwan and Hong Kong, 2000-2018,” at the 2019 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA).

18. “Acting One Way and Talking Another: China’s Coercive Economic Diplomacy in East Asia and Beyond,” at the 2016 American Political Science Association (APSA).

19. “Realism Revisited: Why Tributary System Matters in China’s Wars against Koguryo,” at the  2015 American Political Science Association (APSA).

20. “Breaking the Strategic Encirclement: China’s Assurance and Reassurance Policy in Northeastern Asia,” at the 2014 International Studies Association Conference (ISA).

21. “Talk Is not Cheap: China’s Assurance and Reassurance Strategy in the South China Sea,” at the 2013 Taiwanese Political Science Association Conference.

22. “Names Can Really Hurt Me: Constitutive Discourse in U.S.-China Relations,” with Andrew Bennett at the 2013 Midwest Political Science Association Conference (MPSA).

23. “The Impact of Myth-making on Imperialism: Comparison of Korea and Taiwan during Japanese Colonization,” with Lahee Rhee at the 2011 Western Political Science Association Conference.