Article

From systemic rival to systemic threat – how the EU and US should deal with China in Trump’s second term

01 | 2025
Article in Foreign Policy (with Bonnie Glaser)

China-Russia relations and how US and European policy should address the deepening relationship

02 | 2022
Article for ECFR on US China policy and the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI)

“Europe’s China deal: How not to work with the Biden administration”.

01 | 2021
Article on the rethink in UK China policy and the Huawei decision for the Observer Research Foundation

The Great British China Rethink

Article on the rethink in UK China policy and the Huawei decision for the Observer Research Foundation
August 8, 2020

08 | 2020
Paper for War on the Rocks with Dhruva Jaishankar

“For Our Enemies, We Have Shotguns: Explaining China’s New Assertiveness”

07 | 2020
Foreign Affairs

Europe, China and the transatlantic relationship

04 | 2019
War on the Rocks

China, Imran Khan and the Pakistani elections

07 | 2018
The Print

The limits to Chinese support to Pakistan and the FATF

03 | 2018
Foreign Affairs

The Backlash to Belt and Road

02 | 2018
The Print

China and the Maldives

02 | 2018
Medium

“Bombard the Headquarters” — China and the Liberal Order

04 | 2017
Out of Order

The Counter-Enlightenment and the Great Powers

03 | 2017
World Politics Review

UK China Policy After Brexit

08 | 2016
The Wire

Why China is Playing a Tougher Game on the NSG This Time Around

China’s approach to India’s NSG entry – predicting Beijing’s block

06 | 2016
Cipher Brief

China’s Role in the Middle East

The Middle East is now the region where many of the most significant shifts in China’s global security role are underway

01 | 2016
New York Times

Chinese Foreign Policy Comes of Age

China’s public offer to mediate peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government marks a notable departure in Chinese foreign policy. It is the first time Beijing is taking a genuine leadership role, on its own initiative, on a geopolitical issue both sensitive and significant.

03 | 2015
Washington Quarterly

China’s caution on Afghanistan-Pakistan

Although the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan and Pakistan looks like a prime candidate for closer cooperation between the United States and China, prospects of pursuing complementary policies will remain limited until China fundamentally reappraises its strategy for dealing with extremism in the region.

07 | 2010
GMF Transatlantic Take

China in check? The limits to Beijing’s assertiveness

The U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue capped off a three-month period that has returned the Sino-U.S. relationship to a state of fragile equilibrium. Strategic mistrust remains pervasive and there are few issues on which the two sides genuinely see eye-to-eye. But the missteps of 2009 provided some important lessons for better management of future differences.

07 | 2010
Spiegel Online

„No-one is going to be bought off by a tiny revaluation“

In the run-up to the G-20 summit, China has tried to placate the United States with a revaluation of its currency. But the move is not a real change of course, explains the German Marshall Fund’s Andrew Small in a Spiegel Online interview. He argues that the Chinese leadership is more concerned with deflecting external criticism than with the health of the global economy.

06 | 2010
VoxEU

Beijing Blinks First: the currency debate in diplomatic context

While the U.S. Treasury’s decision on whether to label China a currency manipulator is inevitably political in nature, rarely has it ever been so geopolitically loaded. In previous years, it has mainly been the economic relationship at stake. This time the implications run from Middle Eastern security to nuclear proliferation, and will do much to define the broader shape of the U.S.-China relationship in the coming years.

04 | 2010
Foreign Affairs

China’s new dictatorship diplomacy (with Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt)

China is often accused of supporting a string of despots, nuclear proliferators, and genocidal regimes, shielding them from international pressure and thus reversing progress on human rights and humanitarian principles. But over the last two years, Beijing has been quietly overhauling its policies toward pariah states.

02 | 2008