He is currently working on two related research projects: one seeks to explain various sources of (mis-)perceptions in power transitions, and the other seeks to explain sources of regional/world order changes.

He is the author of China’s Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy, University of British Columbia Press, 2023; Alliance Politics: European Diplomacy between the World Wars, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2024. His work has appeared in English in the Chinese Journal of International Politics and an edited volume of the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series. His work in Chinese has appeared in World Economics and Politics [Shijie Jingji yu Zhengzhi], Guoji Zhengzhi Kexue [Quarterly Journal of International Politics], and Lengzhan Guojishi Yanjiu [Cold War International History Studies], among other publications.