This timely and insightful book explores how China is perceived and debated across different contexts, critically contrasting dominant Western narratives with Chinese perspectives. for more information, please see www.jstor.org/stable/jj.22...

Tim is an outstanding scholar with extensive practitioner experience in the British diplomatic service. Based in Asia and fluent in Mandarin, he brings rare depth and balance to the study of China in global affairs.

China’s regulatory response and the rapid rise of DeepSeek soon triggered a mirror image of anxiety in the US. The generative AI race has become a new front in great-power competition — and a case study in how technology reshapes security dynamics.

The rise of AI has added new layers to the traditional US–China security dilemma. ChatGPT’s success sparked anxiety in China — not only about losing technological ground, but also about threats to ideological and regime security.

📅 6 Nov – Cardiff University Confucius Institute
Book talk: Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director
I’ll give a book talk followed by a discussion with fellow Confucius Institute directors and the wider audience. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/memoirs-of...

📅 5 Nov – University of Oxford China Center
Book talk: Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director — reflecting on my experiences and challenges as a Confucius Institute director.
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📅 3 Nov – Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN) & Freie Universität Berlin
Talk title: The Security Dilemma and the US–China #AI Race. It will be based on my forthcoming paper on US-China Generative AI Race
[Event Link] berlincontemporarychinanetwork.org/events/detai...

📅 31 Oct – University of Turin
Talk: The EU in China's Strategic Discourse
[Event Link] regioneurope.eu/the-program/...
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The talk will be based on my latest observations on the evolving discussion of the EU in China and my previous researchon the topic