COmmentary

“More Than Just Nuclear: Risk Reduction in the China-US Relationship,” The Diplomat, November 10, 2024

“China’s nuclear arsenal is growing. What does that mean for U.S.-China relations?” The Monkey Cage/Washington Post, November 11, 2021 (with M. Taylor Fravel).

“Was China Behind Last October’s Power Outage in India? Here’s What We Know,” The Monkey Cage/Washington Post, April 29, 2021.

Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Hearing on “Deterring PRC Aggression Towards Taiwan,” February 18, 2021.

MEDIA

Quoted in Demetri Sevastopulo, “China’s nuclear build-up: ‘one of the largest shifts in geostrategic power ever,’” Financial Times, November 15, 2021.

Quoted in “Warheads Up: China’s Nuclear Arsenal Was Strikingly Modest, But That Is Changing,” Economist, November 21, 2019.

Quoted in Chris Buckley, “Why U.S. Antimissile System in South Korea Worries China,” New York Times, March 11, 2017.

PODCASTS

I debate whether China is changing its nuclear strategy with Tong Zhao and Bonny Lin in “China’s Accelerated Expansion of its Nuclear Arsenal Represents a Shift in China’s Nuclear Strategy and Doctrine: A Debate with Dr. Tong Zhao and Dr. Fiona Cunningham,” China Power Podcast, CSIS, January 9, 2024.

I discuss China’s nuclear modernization with Bonnie Glaser in “China’s Nuclear Strategy, Capabilities, and Build-up,” of China Global Podcast, the German Marshall Fund, November 23, 2021. 

I discuss my International Security article with M. Taylor Fravel “Dangerous Confidence” with Admiral Cecil Haney (Retired) and Morgan Kaplan in “Chinese Views of Escalation,” Episode 8, IS Off the Page Podcast, April 15, 2020.

I discuss my research on Chinese cybersecurity policy with John Villasenor in “Cyberspectives: Fiona Cunningham on China and Cybersecurity,” the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, April 25, 2019.

Photo (above): canals of Beijing in fall.