Research papers
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]
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 [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]
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]
Britain and Hong Kong: the 2019 protests and their aftermath. Asian Education and Development Studies 11(2), 276-286, 2022 [here]
Economic Statecraft in Anglo-Chinese Relations: Recalling the Hong Kong Airport Negotiations. Diplomacy & Statecraft 32(4): 789-809, 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 UK’s China policy under US-China strategic rivalry: the impact of think tank research, China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies 5(2): 177-196, 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]
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region at 20: Evaluating the Sino-British Joint Declaration, Asian Education and Development Studies 7(1): 89-101, 2018 [here]
Brexit: implications for EU-China relations, Chatham House research paper, 2017 [here]
British policy towards Hong Kong and its political reform, Issues & Studies 52(4), 2016 [here]
Written evidence for British parliamentary inquiries
The UK’s security and trade relationship with China, House of Lords inquiry, 2021 [here]
The FCO and the Integrated Review, Foreign Affairs Committee, 2020 [here]
China and the international rules-based system, Foreign Affairs Committee, 2019 [here]
UK Relations with China, Foreign Affairs Committee, 2017 [here]
The UK’s relations with Hong Kong, Foreign Affairs Committee, 2014 [here]
Chapters in Reports by European Think-tank Network on China [here]
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
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
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
Limited appeal: China’s soft power in the United Kingdom, China’s Soft Power in Europe: Falling on Hard Times, European think-tank network on China, 2021
UK: Sharpening the China Debate amid Covid-19, 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, Europe in the Face of US-China Rivalry, European think-tank network on China, 2020
UK-China: Broadening the values agenda, Political values in Europe-China relations, European think-tank network on China, 2018
Chinese Investment in the UK: Growing Flows or Growing Controversy? Chinese Investment in Europe: A Country-Level Approach, European think-tank network on China, 2017
A platform for commercial cooperation, Europe and China’s New Silk Roads, European think-tank network on China, 2016
UK-China relations: navigating a changing world, Mapping Europe-China relations: a bottom-up approach, European think-tank network on China, 2015
Other analyses
The politics of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, 2014-23. British International Studies Association annual conference, Birmingham, U.K., 5 June 2024.
Is China a threat to the UK? [here]
Why the UK needs to work with China, 2020 [here]