Dr Lee Jonghyuk is an Assistant Professor in the China Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Dr Lee holds a PhD in Political Science and International Affairs from The University of California. Prior to joining RSIS, Dr Lee was a Post-doctoral Fellow with Tsinghua University. His research interests include Relationship between bureaucratic politics and political economy; Comparable political economy; Chinese Politics and economy; as well as Statistical and quantitative analysis.

IDSS Paper

• IP23009 | China's Loosening Covid Policy: Lessons from India and Singapore

  16 January, 2023

• IP22066 | Xi Jinping’s Political Victory and ‘Smart’ Reunification Strategy: Implications of the 20th CPC National Congress on Cross-Strait Relations

  11 November, 2022

• IP22060 | The Loyalty-Competence Trade-off in Xi Jinping's Selection of Party Top Brass

  03 November, 2022

• IP22047 | No Winner's Game: Pelosi's Visit to Taiwan and Geopolitics in Asia

  23 August, 2022

• IP22041 | From Pragmatism to Aggression: The Sources and Consequences of China's Assertive Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping

  04 August, 2022

• IP22036 | Machine Learning Predictions on the 20th Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China

  30 June, 2022

• IP22028 | Latin America: Extended Arena of Cross-Strait Rivalry

  12 April, 2022

• IP22023 | Simulating a War without Cost: the Implication of the Russo-Ukrainian War on the Cross-strait Relations in China

  31 March, 2022

• IP22005 | A Taipei Moment Next?

  10 February, 2022

Commentaries

• The Future of Factional Politics in China under Xi Jinping

  31 August, 2023

• Understanding China's Strategic Culture: A Clash of Realpolitik and Cultural Moralism

  27 April, 2023

Journal Articles

• “Machine-learning analysis of leadership formation in China to parse the roles of loyalty and institutional norms” (with Victor C. Shih) in PNAS , 2023