BOOKS
Global China: A Critique of Chinese and Western Narratives (Bristol University Press, 2025)
China’s Hong Kong: the politics of a global city (Agenda Publishing, 2019; second edition, 2021)
China’s Regions in an Era of Globalization (London and New York: Routledge, 2018)
Yunnan–A Chinese Bridgehead to Asia: a case study of China’s political and economic relations with its neighbours (Oxford: Chandos, 2013)
JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
The Politics of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong, 2014–2024. Asian Affairs, 1–24, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2025.2510454
The Chinese Government’s Negotiating Strategy Over the Future of Hong Kong: Revisiting the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration. With Rong WEI. The International History Review, 1–18, 2025 [https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2025.2466463]
British economic strategy and regional institutions in Asia, 2016–2024. With Chen Li and Chunzi Miao. Asia Europe Journal, 2024 [link]
UK-China Academic Relations in a World of Strategic Rivalry. In Wong Suk Ying et al. (eds), Reimagining the Humanities: Chinese and Western Perspectives. Beijing: Commercial Press, 579-608, 2023 [here]
Maritime politics as discourse in the Indo/Asia-Pacific. Territory, Politics, Governance 11(3), 572-589, 2023 [here]
Britain and Hong Kong: the 2019 protests and their aftermath. Asian Education and Development Studies 11(2), 276-286, 2022 [here]
Worsening British views of China in 2020: evidence from public opinion, parliament and the media. With Hiu Man Chan, Peter Gries & Richard Turcsanyi. Asia Europe Journal 20, 173-194, 2022 [here]
Economic Statecraft in Anglo-Chinese Relations: Recalling the Hong Kong Airport Negotiations. Diplomacy & Statecraft 32(4): 789-809, 2021 [here]
Carrots, not Sticks: A Historical Analysis of Beijing’s Economic Statecraft Towards Hong Kong. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 2021 [here]
Imagining Brexit: The UK’s China Policy after the Referendum. In Michael Reilly and Chun-yi Lee, eds, A new beginning or more of the same: The European Union and East Asia after Brexit, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 [here]
The Belt and Road Initiative in Southwest China: Responses from Yunnan Province. The Pacific Review 34(2): 206-229, 2021 [here]
Negotiating the boundaries of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38(5): 809-813, 2020 [here]
Structural power and the financing of the Belt and Road Initiative. Eurasian Geography and Economics 61(2): 146-151, 2020 [here]
The UK’s China policy under US-China strategic rivalry: the impact of think tank research. China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies 5(2): 1-20, 2019 [here]
The External Affairs of the Hong Kong SAR: UK-Hong Kong Economic Relations. Asian Education and Development Studies 8(2): 126-136, 2019 [here]
US-China strategic rivalry and its implications. China’s World 3(2): 14-27, 2018
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region at 20: Evaluating the Sino-British Joint Declaration. Asian Education and Development Studies 7(1): 89-101, 2018
Rocking the boat? China’s ‘belt and road’ and global order. In Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Niv Horesh, eds, China’s Presence in the Middle East: The implications of the One Belt, One Road Initiative. Routledge, 2018
Chinese multilateralism: diluting the TPP. In Adrian Hearn and Margaret Myers, eds, The changing currents of transpacific integration: China, the TPP, and beyond. Lynne Rienner, 2017, 77-86
British policy towards Hong Kong and its political reform. Issues & Studies 52(4): 1-25, 2016 [here]
Discourses and institutions in China’s maritime disputes. China Information 30 (3): 275-295, 2016 [here]
Thinking inside the box: China and global/regional governance. Rising Powers Quarterly 1(1): 23-31, 2016
China’s ‘New Silk Roads’: sub-national regions and networks of global political economy. Third World Quarterly 37(9): 1628-43, 2016 [here]
Society and politics in China Today. International Affairs 91(5): 1151-60, 2015 [here]
Rebalancing towards a Sustainable Future: China’s Twelfth Five-Year Programme, with Ash, R. and Porter, R. in China and the EU in Context: Insights for Business and Investors, Brown, K. (ed), London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014
(Re)positioning Yunnan: Region and Nation in Contemporary Provincial Narratives. Journal of Contemporary China 21(75): 445-459, 2012 [here]
China’s Western Regions 2020: Their National and Global Implications. In China 2020: What Policy Makers Need to Know About the New Rising Power in the Coming Decade, edited by Kerry Brown, Oxford: Chandos, 2011
China and the Mekong Region. China Perspectives 2008 (3): 68-77 [here]
POLICY RESEARCH
UK: Still looking across the Atlantic. In Quest for Strategic Autonomy? Europe Grapples with the US - China Rivalry. European think-tank network on China, 2025 [link]
UK: Following the de-risking trend. In National Perspectives on Europe’s De-risking from China. European think-tank network on China, 2024
Shaping the policy debate: How does the British media present China? Lau China Institute Policy Series 2023 China in the World No. 8, published in partnership with CUHK [here]
United Kingdom: Shifting towards a critical stance towards China. In From a China strategy to no strategy at all: Exploring the diversity of European approaches, European think-tank network on China, 2023
UK: Vulnerability or politics? “Strategic dependence” and the China debate. In Dependence in Europe’s Relations with China: Weighing Perceptions and Reality, European think-tank network on China, 2022
Written evidence for House of Lords inquiry into the UK’s security and trade relationship with China, 2021 [here]
Limited appeal: China’s soft power in the United Kingdom. In China’s Soft Power in Europe: Falling on Hard Times, European think-tank network on China, 2021
British public opinion on China in the age of COVID-19. With Richard Q. Turcsanyi, Matej Simalcik, Kristina Kironska, Renata Sedlakova, Central European Institute of Asian Studies and Chatham House, Dec. 2020
Written evidence for UK Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into “The FCO and the Integrated Review”, 2020
UK: Sharpening the China Debate amid Covid-19. In Covid-19 and Europe-China Relations, European think-tank network on China, 2020
Better the devil you know? US-China strategic rivalry and the UK’s China policy. In Europe in the Face of US-China Rivalry, European think-tank network on China, 2020
Policy coordination is key element. In Common Prosperity: Global Views on Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2019
UK-China: Broadening the values agenda. In Political values in Europe-China relations, European think-tank network on China, 2018
EU-China Innovation Relations: From Zero Sum to Global Networks. With K. C. Kwok and Lawrence J. Lau, Chatham House Research Paper, 2018
Written evidence for UK Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into “China and the international rules-based system”, 2018
Enhancing Hong Kong’s role in international relations. Report for the PPR Project “One Belt One Road: China’s Motives and Hong Kong’s Roles”, co-authored with Zhang Baohui, 2018.
Chinese Investment in the UK: Growing Flows or Growing Controversy? In Chinese Investment in Europe: A Country-Level Approach, European think-tank network on China, 2017
EU-China economic relations to 2025: building a common future. Joint research paper for Chatham House, Bruegel, CUHK and China Center for International Economic Exchanges, co-authored with Alicia Garcia-Herrero, K.C.Kwok, Liu Xiangdong, Zhang Yansheng, 2017
Brexit: implications for EU-China relations. Chatham House research paper, 2017
Hong Kong: Is the handover deal unraveling? In The Critical Transition: China’s Priorities for 2021, Chatham House research paper, 2017
Written evidence for UK Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into China, Jan. 2017
A platform for commercial cooperation. In Europe and China’s New Silk Roads, European think-tank network on China, 2016
The Asia-Pacific Power Balance: beyond the US-China narrative. Chatham House research paper, co-authored with Xenia Wickett and John Nilsson-Wright, 2015
UK-China relations: navigating a changing world. In Mapping Europe-China relations: a bottom-up approach, European think-tank network on China, 2015
China’s approaches to globalization. China’s World 1 (1), 2015
Written evidence for UK Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into the UK’s relations with Hong Kong, Jan. 2015
China’s Global Personality. Chatham House research paper, 2014
China’s New Leadership: approaches to international affairs. Chatham House, 2013
China: state aid and subsidies. Unpublished paper for the Europe-China Research and Advice Network, with Robert Ash and Robin Porter, 2013
‘Reform’ and China’s new leadership. Foreign Policy Centre, Nov. 2012
China’s economic geography: moving outside the Pearl River Delta. Foreign Policy Centre, 2012
Engaging with inland China. Foreign Policy Centre, 2011
Global Shifts and China’s Response – Is Beijing taking a new approach to global issues? Foreign Policy Centre, 2010
The PRC at 60 – A New Chapter for China? Foreign Policy Centre, 2009