Pang Zhongying is a chair professor in international political economy at the School of Economics, Sichuan University in Chengdu. He holds a PhD in international politics from Peking University and a MA in international studies from Warwick University, England. He was a visiting senior fellow with the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and a resident visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Dr Pang has been teaching international relations and global issues at China’s leading universities for the past 20 years.