Jingdong Yuan

Dr Jingdong Yuan is an Adjunct Fellow at the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS:ACRI).

Dr Yuan is an Associate Senior Fellow at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He is also a Zijiang Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Indian Ocean Region Studies at East China Normal University. Dr Yuan has previously served as Director of the China and Asia Security Program at SIPRI, Acting Director, Centre for International Security Studies and Chair, Department of Government and International Relations, both at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on Indo–Pacific security, Chinese foreign policy, Sino–Indian relations, China– EU relations, and nuclear arms control and non-proliferation. He has held visiting appointments at the National University of Singapore, University of Macau, East–West Center, National Cheng-chi University, Mercator Institute for China Studies, Fudan University, Berlin Social Sciences Centre (WZB) and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). He is the co-author of Chinese cruise missiles: quiet force-multiplier (2014) and China and India: cooperation or conflict? (2003), and co-editor of Engaging China: How Australia Can Lead the Way Again (2023) and Trump’s America and international relations in the Indo–Pacific (2021), and Australia and China at 40 (2012). His publications have appeared in numerous journals and edited volumes, including, most recently, “The Panda Diplomacy”, “Nuclear Wars”, “China’s Rise as a global actor in international development finance”, “China’s Emerging Private Security Companies”, among others. He is currently completing a book manuscript on China–South Asian relations.