consultant • analyst • writer
Writing
Research Articles
Chinese National Security Laws Hinder Foreign Companies’ Operations in China, in China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, 20 October 2023
The Long Arm of the Law(less): The PRC’s Overseas Police Stations, in China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, 12 June 2023
United Front Work and Beyond: How the Chinese Communist Party Penetrates the United States and Western Societies, in China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, 12 April 2023
Fentanyl Precursors from China and the American Opioid Epidemic, in China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, 19 January 2023
All the President’s Men – Corruption in the Xi Jinping Era, in China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, 20 September 2022
Twin Soliloquies in the South Pacific: China and the West Pursue Pacific Island Nations, in China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, 15 July 2022
Future Global Policeman? The Growing Extraterritorial Reach of PRC Law Enforcement, in China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, 13 May 2022
Organised Crime on the Belt and Road, in China Brief, Jamestown Foundation, 25 March 2022
City of Vice: Macau, Gambling, and Organized Crime in China, in China Brief, the Jamestown Foundation, 25 February 2022
Illegal Betting and Sport, in ‘Global Report on Corruption in Sport’
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, December 2021
Commentary on ‘Patterns of “Disorder” During the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong: Policing, Social Identity, Intergroup Dynamics, and Radicalization, Policing (Oxford Academic), 3 December 2020
Hong Kong: The torn city, Asian Affairs, July 2020
A report of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, Asian Affairs, October 2019
Patriotic Chinese triads and secret societies: From the Imperial Dynasties, to Nationalism, and Communism, Asian Affairs, July 2019.
Pirates of the South China Seas, Asian Affairs, February 2018
Maintaining a unitary state: Counter-terrorism, separatism, and extremism in Xinjiang and China, Asian Affairs, May 2017.
News Articles
Worsening US-China relationship could have global economic impact, The Scotsman, 15 September 2022
Sri Lanka struggling with crippling inflation, lack of essential goods and huge debts, The Scotsman, 18 August 2022
Ukraine conflict is a game changer for Asia, The Scotsman, 2 June 2022
Asian Affairs magazine, January 2022
What lessons can be learned from the Hong Kong police’s handling of the 2019 protests?, South China Morning Post, 3 June 2021
There is more to Asia than China as we seek reliable partners, The Scotsman, 6 May 2021
US policy towards the China Dream: The Thucydides Trap and the 100 Year Marathon,
Ming Pao, 23 August 2020
What is terrorism?, Ming Pao, March 2020
Escaping Hong Kong’s Catch-22, Ming Pao, December 2019
Book Reviews
The Hong Kong Diaries, Asian Affairs, September 2022
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, Asian Affairs, July 2022
The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong,
Asian Affairs, February 2022
Crime, Justice and Punishment in Colonial Hong Kong: Central Police Station, Central Magistracy, and Victoria Gaol, Asian Affairs, 10 August 2021
Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship
Asian Affairs, 6 July 2021
Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq, Asian Affairs, 26 April 2021
Hidden Hand: Exposing how the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World, Asian Affairs, 21 January 2021
Mr. Smith Goes to China: Three Scots in the Making of Britain’s Global Empire, Asian Affairs, 21 January 2021
Chinese Communist Espionage: An intelligence primer,
by Peter Mattis and Matthew Brazil, Naval Institute Press, Asian Affairs, July 2020