George Yin
Non-Resident Fellow
George Yin is a non-resident fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin and a senior research fellow at the Center for China Studies, National Taiwan University (NTUCCS). George co-founded NTU’s Chinese foreign policy program with Professor Philip Hsu and serves as its deputy director. His research often uses data to study great power competition. He is interested in how such competition pressures states to make (sub-optimal) strategic decisions, often with reference to US-China dynamics and Indo-Pacific relations, particularly as these develop under Trump 2.0.
George is also a senior fellow at the Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies (MERICS), an associate-in-research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and a research affiliate with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Institute (AIGI). Since 2023, George has been a senior advisor to Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF, Taiwan’s principal organization managing cross-strait affairs).
George’s writings have appeared in a number of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Asian Survey, The National Interest, The Oxford St. Antony Review, The Diplomat, The Washington Post, and War on the Rocks. George edited and published the Chinese version of JFK: A Vision for America (2023), the official volume commemorating President John F. Kennedy’s centennial that addresses key issues in great power politics. He also worked on an edited volume on Indo-Pacific strategies around the world (2024) with Taiwan’s Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun. George has provided commentary and interviews for the BBC, Reuters, The Economist, The Guardian, NPR, ABC, and Le Monde.
George previously served as executive director of the Caucus on Strategic and Diplomatic Consensus at Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan and as a non-resident senior fellow at the DC-based Atlantic Council. He was an assistant professor of political science at Swarthmore College, a Dickey post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth College, a Samuel Huntington Fellow at Harvard University, and a National Security Fellow at the Tobin Project. George was also a visiting scholar at Keio and Waseda Universities, respectively, as well as Trinity College Dublin. He has run projects on US-China relations and Taiwanese public opinion with Harvard University, National Chengchi University (NCCU), and Fudan University.
George holds a doctorate in Government from Harvard University, a master’s in political economy from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s in political science and economics from Swarthmore College (the United States). His work has been supported by the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS), the Harvard Program on Negotiation (PON), the Harvard Fairbank Center for China Studies, the Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE), The British International Studies Association, and the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada, among others.