Li Xiaojun is a Wang Gungwu visiting fellow at the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. He is also an associate professor of political science at the University of British Columbia in Canada and a non-resident scholar at the 21st Century China Centre at US San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. He received his PhD from Stanford University and has held visiting positions at  Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (2014-2015), Fudan Development Institute (2016), and University of Hawaii’s East-West Center (2018). His field of research is on international and comparative political economy using China as the primary case of inquiry and is the co-author of How China Sees the World: Insights from China’s International Relations Scholars (Palgrave 2019) and Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States (University of Michigan Press, 2021).