We hope you’ll be interested in a project we’re beginning on the impact of COVID-19 on the experiences of students from China attending school in the U.S.
Some of the most vibrant work we’ve published over the years has come from students, and we hope you can join us in creating some more of it.
How has China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic—inside and outside of China—affected perceptions of China among countries in Asia? And how might this shape future policy toward China, or the regional policy landscape more broadly?
Greta Nabbs-Keller is a Senior Research Associate at The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Centre for Policy Futures and an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies (UQ-POLSIS). She has worked previously in senior policy and analytical roles for the Department of Defense in Canberra and Jakarta, and finished her Australian Public Service career as a Senior Indonesia Analyst. Nabbs-Keller has utilized her Indonesia expertise in government consulting, research, and international development roles. She contributes regularly to media and think-tank analysis on Indonesian defense, political and foreign policy issues, and engages with policy communities through submissions, dialogues, and executive educations programs. In her role as a Senior Research Associate at UQ-Centre for Policy Futures, she focuses on the internal political dynamics which shape the formulation and efficacy of Indonesia’s trade, foreign policy, and security policy. The project builds on an extant body of research examining ideational and institutional shifts in Indonesia’s foreign policy and the impact of domestic political change on Jakarta’s relations with China, ASEAN, and Australia.
John McKinnon was educated in New Zealand at Nelson College and Victoria University of Wellington, and in the United Kingdom at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He joined the then Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Zealand in May 1974. In 1975, he was sent to Hong Kong to undertake two years of Chinese language training, following which he was assigned to the New Zealand Embassy in Beijing as Second Secretary.
His subsequent overseas assignments with the New Zealand foreign service were in Washington, Canberra, and New York (this last in the 1990s when New Zealand was serving a term on the United Nations Security Council). McKinnon was the Director of the External Assessments Bureau in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1995 to 2000.
He served twice as New Zealand Ambassador to China and Mongolia, the first time from 2001 to 2004; the second time from 2015 to 2018. In between these two postings, he was successively a senior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Secretary of Defense, and Executive Director of the Asia New Zealand Foundation. McKinnon is now a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Strategic Studies at Victoria University.
Kamal Dev Bhattarai is a Kathmandu-based journalist and writer. He writes in international media about Nepal’s foreign policy, mainly focusing on India, China, and the United States. Over the last 10 years, he has been following Nepal’s policy towards India and China, and vice versa.
From 2016 to 2018, Bhattarai was New Delhi Bureau Chief for Kantipur Media Group, Nepal’s largest media house. As a senior political correspondent of The Kathmandu Post and The Himalayan Times, he closely followed Nepal’s peace and constitution drafting process. He regularly contributes to international media outlets from Nepal, and he is known for his in-depth, evidence-based, and impartial analysis, and reporting on foreign policy.
He has written a book about Nepal’s peace and constitution drafting process, Transition: From 12-Point Understanding to Constitution Promulgation (Book Hill Publication, 2016). He teaches journalism and mass communication in colleges and is involved in media research.
Tanvi Madan is a Senior Fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy in the Foreign Policy program, and Director of The India Project at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Madan’s work explores India’s role in the world and its foreign policy, focusing in particular on India’s relations with China and the United States. She also researches the intersection between Indian energy policies and its foreign and security policies.
Madan is the author of the book Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped U.S.-India Relations during the Cold War (Brookings Institution Press, 2020). She is currently completing a monograph on India’s foreign policy diversification strategy, and researching her next book on the China-India-U.S. triangle.
Previously, Madan was a Harrington Doctoral Fellow and Teaching Assistant at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. She has also been a research analyst at Brookings, and worked in the information technology industry in India.
Madan has authored a number of publications on India’s foreign policy and been cited by media outlets such as the Associated Press, The Economist, Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Madan has also appeared on a number of news shows including on the BBC, CBS, Channel NewsAsia, CNBC, Fox News, India Today TV, NDTV, NPR, and PBS.
In addition to a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Texas at Austin, she has a Master’s degree in International Relations from Yale University and a Bachelor’s degree with honors in history from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, India.
Satu Limaye is Vice President of the East West Center (EWC) and Director of EWC in Washington, where he created and now directs the Asia Matters for America initiative. He is the Founding Editor of the Asia Pacific Bulletin. He is also a Senior Advisor at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA Corp) and Senior Fellow on Asia History and Policy at the Foreign Policy Institute at Paul H. Nitze School of International Studies (SAIS). He is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Georgetown University and received his Doctorate from Oxford University (Magdalen College) where he was a George C. Marshall Scholar.
He publishes and speaks widely on Asia-Pacific regional issues and supports various U.S. government, foundation, fellowship, and professional organizations. His current affiliations include the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) Advisory Council, the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation, and the National Bureau of Asian Research East Asia Study Group.
Limaye’s recent publications include: “America’s ‘Pacific Principle’ in an Indivisible Pacific Islands Region,” (Asia-Pacific Bulletin); “Despite Stumbles, America’s Engagement with Southeast Runs Deep” (Global Asia); Raging Waters: China, India, Bangladesh, and Brahmaputra Water Politics (Marine Corps University Press, 2018); “Russia’s Peripheral Relevance to US-Indo Pacific Relations” (Center for the National Interest); “The U.S.-Philippine Alliance: A Renegotiated Mutual Defense Treaty is Neither Simple nor a Panacea for Bilateral Ties” (Philippine Star); “Weighted West, Focused on the Indian Ocean and Cooperating across the Indo-Pacific: The Indian Navy’s New Maritime Strategy, Capabilities, and Diplomacy” (Center for Naval Analyses); and “Why ASEAN is Here to Stay and What that Means for the U.S.” (The Diplomat).
Previously, Limaye served on the research staff of the Strategy, Forces, & Resources Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and as Director of Research & Publications at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies.
Cheng-Chwee Kuik is Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Asian Studies at the National University of Malaysia (UKM)’s Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS). He is concurrently a Non-Resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
Previously, Kuik was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program. His research focuses on the foreign policy behavior of weaker states, Asian security, China-ASEAN relations, and Southeast Asian international relations. He served as Head of the Writing Team for the Government of Malaysia’s inaugural Defence White Paper (2020). His publications have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Contemporary China, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Chinese Journal of International Politics, and Asian Politics and Policy, as well as edited books. Kuik’s essay, “The Essence of Hedging,” won the biennial 2009 Michael Leifer Memorial Prize by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) for the best article published in any of the three ISEAS journals. He is co-author (with David M. Lampton and Selina Ho) of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (University of California Press, forthcoming) and co-editor (with Alice Ba and Sueo Sudo) of Institutionalizing East Asia (Routledge, 2016).
His current projects include: hedging in international relations, Southeast Asian states’ responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (with Lee Jones), and the geopolitics of infrastructure connectivity cooperation. Kuik serves on the editorial boards/committees of Contemporary Southeast Asia, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Asian Perspective, and Routledge’s “IR Theory and Practice in Asia” Book Series.
He holds an M.Litt. from the University of St. Andrews and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
St. Martin’s Press: Dexter Roberts explores the reality behind today’s financially-ascendant China and pulls the curtain back on how the Chinese manufacturing machine is actually powered. He focuses on two places: the village of Binghuacun in Guizhou province, one of China’s poorest regions that sends the highest proportion of its youth away; and Dongguan, China’s most infamous factory town located in Guangdong, home to both the largest number of migrant workers and the country’s biggest manufacturing base.
Within these two towns and the people that move between them, Roberts focuses on the story of the Mo family, former farmers-turned-migrant-workers who are struggling to make a living in a fast-changing country that relegates half of its people to second-class status via household registration, land tenure policies, and inequality in education and health care systems.
Roberts brings to life the problems migrant workers face today as they attempt to overcome a divisive system that poses a serious challenge to the country’s future development.
Venky Vembu, The Hindu Business Line (March 30, 2020)
Pete Sweeney, Reuters (March 27, 2020)
Geoff Dyer, The Financial Times (March 25, 2020)
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios (March 4, 2020)
Publishers Weekly (January 8, 2020)
Kirkus Reviews (December 8, 2019)
Mary Hui, Quartz (March 8, 2020)
Patrick Sauer, Marker (March 12, 2020)
Related Reading:
Dexter Roberts, The Wall Street Journal Weekend Review (March 6)
