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Hong Nong

Executive Director, Institute for China-America Studies; Senior Fellow, Beijing Club for International Dialogue

Hong Nong is the executive director of the Institute for China-America Studies and a senior fellow of the Beijing Club for International Dialogue. She is concurrently a research fellow with the China Institute of the University of Alberta in Canada and of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies in China. She is also a China Forum expert and the author of China’s Role in the Arctic: Observing and Being Observed (2020). Her interdisciplinary research on international relations and international law focuses on international relations and comparative politics in general; ocean governance in East Asia and the Arctic; the law of the sea; international security, particularly non-traditional security; as well as international dispute settlement and conflict resolution.

Articles by Hong Nong

Politics

The Greenland myth: Why invasion talk misleads

The current conversation about “occupying Greenland” is an imprecise framing of the issue. The more consequential contest is about alliance governance, early warning and sensing, long-horizon Arctic connectivity, and the rules that shape future resource development, says US academic Hong Nong.

Hong Nong

20 Jan 2026

Economy

US, China and EU: The race for Greenland’s mineral riches

Greenland may become over-politicised as US-China rivalry is increasingly mirrored in resource diplomacy, while the EU acts as a normative power pushing environmental safeguards, says US academic Hong Nong.

Hong Nong

03 Jun 2025

Politics

Who owns the Arctic? Trump’s vision and the global power struggle

From a US perspective, greater territorial control in the Arctic — whether through Greenland or Canada — would serve as a strategic countermeasure to both China’s growing presence and Russia’s regional dominance, says US academic Hong Nong.

Hong Nong

10 Feb 2025

Politics

The South Pacific Ocean: Another battleground for China-US competition?

While the South Pacific is looking to be an emerging arena of greater competition with China on one side and the US and its allies on the other, US-based academic Hong Nong also sees that areas of common interest could still drive cooperation between them, depending on which direction the pendulum swings.

Hong Nong

21 Apr 2022

Politics

China's cautious navigation amid talk of a new Cold War in the Arctic

Although not an Arctic state, China has called itself a "near-Arctic state" and is an observer in the Arctic Council. It takes an interest in Arctic affairs and the development of Arctic shipping routes such as the Northern Sea Route which could see transits between Europe and Asia shortened if they become commercially viable in the future. While China-Russia ties look to be getting ever closer, Hong Nong explains why close cooperation between the two countries in the Arctic - which some call the theatre of a new Cold War - is not at all straightforward.

Hong Nong

01 Mar 2022