Xue GongXue GONG is Assistant Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests include international political economy, Asian regionalism and global governance. She has contriuted to peer-reviewed journals such as World Development, International Affairs, the Pacific Review, Contemporary Southeast Asia, and Harvard Asia Quarterly. She co-edited Securing the Belt and Road Initiative: Risk Assessment, Private Security and Special Insurances Along the New Wave of Chinese Outbound Investment (Palgrave Macmillan 2018), and has contributed to several book chapters on China’s economic statecraft in Southeast Asia. She has also contributed various Op-Ed articles. Read More Read Less