Faculty

Ji Xianbai

Associate Professor

xbji@ruc.edu.cn

Biography
Research Interest
Publications
Teaching

Education

2019 PhD in International Political Economy, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2013 MSc in International Political Economy, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2009 BEng, Xiamen University, China

Current and past professional affiliations

Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Renmin University of China (2023-present)

Director, Institute for South and Southeast Asian Studies, School of Global and Area Studies, Renmin University of China (2024-present)

Senior Fellow, Policy Research Office, Renmin University of China (2024-present)

Executive Director, International Political Economy Research Centre, School of International Studies, Renmin University of China (2021-present)

Visiting Fellow, Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2023)

Director, Office of Continuing Education, School of International Studies, Renmin University of China (2021-2022)

Research Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2019-2020)

Associate Fellow, European Union Centre in Singapore (2014-2020)

Europa Visiting Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University (2017)

Research Assistant/Associate, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2009-2014)

Research Interest

Global Economic Governance

Regionalism and Multilateralism

Geo-economics

Southeast Asian Affairs

Books

Xianbai Ji, ed., Area Studies in China: History and Development (Beijing: Renmin University Press, 2025)

Dongsheng Di, Xianbai Ji and Zilong Wei, Sanctions and Economic Warfare (Beijing: Renmin University Press, 2025)

Xianbai Ji, Mega-regionalism and Great Power Geo-economic Competition (London and New York: Routledge, 2022)

Pradumna B. Rana and Xianbai Ji, eds., From Centralised to Decentralising Global Economic Architecture: The Asian Perspective (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

Pradumna B. Rana and Xianbai Ji, China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Impacts on Asia and Policy Agenda (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Peer-reviewed articles

Xianbai Ji, “From Indo-Pacific back to Euro-Atlantic? The Ukraine War and the EU’s strategic reorientation,” Asia Europe Journal, online first (2025), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-025-00725-4.

Xianbai Ji and Xin Tong, “Beyond Trade Wars: The Multidimensional Battleground of US–China Geoeconomic Rivalry in the Asia-Pacific,” East Asian Policy, Vol. 17, Vol. 2 (2025), pp. 107–125.

Xianbai Ji, “Securitising regionalism: mega-regional trade blocs, Indo-Pacific Economic Framework and supply chain alliances in Asia,” Asia Europe Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2024), pp. 383-401.

Xianbai Ji, “Building an ‘Asia-Pacific community with a shared future’: transformational regionalism with Chinese characteristics?” Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol. 53, No. 2 (2024), pp. 254-276.

Martin Albrecht Haenig and Xianbai Ji*, “A tale of two Southeast Asian states: media governance and authoritarian regimes in Singapore and Vietnam,” Asian Review of Political Economy, Vol. 3, No. 4 (2024).

Xianbai Ji and Binyang Yan, “Summit Diplomacy and the Development of China-ASEAN Economic and Trade Relations: A Political Economy Analysis Based on Panel Data from 2013 to 2021,” Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 6 (2024), pp. 124-153.

Xianbai Ji, “Stay Useful, Stay Relevant: Singapore’s Institutional Diplomacy toward China’s Belt and Road Initiative,” Asian Perspective, Vol. 47, No. 4 (2023), pp. 553-577.

Xianbai Ji, “How Global Summitry Evolves: The Complementary Multilateralism Perspective,” The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2022), pp. 289-312.

Xianbai Ji and Guanie Lim, “The Chinese way of reforming global economic governance: An analysis of China’s rising role in the group of twenty (G-20),” The Chinese Economy, Vol. 55, No. 4 (2022), pp. 282-292.

Guanie Lim, Chen Li and Xianbai Ji*, “Chinese financial statecraft in Southeast Asia: an analysis of China’s infrastructure provision in Malaysia,” The Pacific Review, Vol. 35, No. 4 (2022), pp. 647-675.

Wang Xueying, Yu Zhu and Xianbai Ji, “Industrial Transfer, Global Integration, and Hidden Vulnerabilities: A Study on the International Political Economy of Vietnam's Manufacturing Development,” Southeast Asian Affairs, Vol. 189 (2022), pp. 106-125.

Pradumna B. Rana, Wai-Mun Chia and Xianbai Ji*, “The Decentralising International Trade Architecture: Perspectives from and Role of Asia,” The Singapore Economic Review, Vol. 66, No. 1 (2021), pp. 59-84.

Xianbai Ji, “Conditional endorsement and selective engagement: a perception survey of European think tanks on China’s belt and road initiative,” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Vol. 28, No. 2-3 (2021), pp. 175-197.

Xianbai Ji and Pradumna B. Rana, “A Deal that Does not Die: America and the Rise, Fall and Future of (CP)TPP,” Pacific Focus, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2019), pp. 230-255.

Xianbai Ji, Pradumna B. Rana, Wai-Mun Chia and Changtai Li, “Post-TPP Trade Policy Options for ASEAN and its Dialogue Partners: ‘Preference Ordering’ Using CGE Analysis,” East Asian Economic Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2018), pp. 177-215.

Xianbai Ji, “Promoting Regional Development Bank Complementarity: Challenges to Asia and Lessons from Europe,” Asia Europe Journal, Vol.15, No. 3 (2017), pp. 261-281.

Undergraduate courses

Global Political Economy and Country Risk (in Chinese)

Foreign Affairs Management (in Chinese)

International Economic Institutions (in Chinese)

Regionalism and Regional Economic Integration (in Chinese)

Postgraduate courses

The Political Economy of International Trade (in Chinese)

Introduction to Southeast Asia

Introduction to Belt and Road Initiative (in Chinese)