How Experts Shape Chinese Foreign Policy

In this episode of Pekingology, CSIS Senior Fellow Henrietta Levin is joined by Sabine Mokry, Postdoctoral Researcher with the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg and author of the new book Chinese Scholars and Think Tanks’ Construction of China's National Interest. Sabine unpacks the process through which outside expertise can shape the Party’s national security concepts, the relevance of Chinese think tanks and scholars in policymaking, and how China – nearly a thousand miles from the Arctic – became a “near-Arctic State.”

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How Experts Shape Chinese Foreign Policy is an episode from Pekingology by Center for Strategic and International Studies.

This episode is 31:33 long.

This episode was published on Jan 22, 2026.

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