Zhang Yun

Zhang Yun is an associate professor at the National Niigata University in Japan. He obtained a PhD in law from Peking University and a PhD in international relations from Waseda University. His research expertise includes China-Japan-US trilateral relations, Chinese politics and diplomacy, international relations in the Asia Pacific, and international relations theory. He has served as a visiting scholar at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a visiting scholar for Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a research fellow at Center for Global Governance of Peking University, a researcher at the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs of the Federation of Japanese Business (Keidanren), a nonresident senior fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Nanyang Technological University, and a research fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS). His latest book is Sino-Japanese Relations in a Trilateral Context: Origins of Misperception (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He is a columnist for Lianhe Zaobao, where he regularly publishes articles on international relations. He also serves as an invited commentator for Phoenix TV.