Stefanie Kam Li Yee obtained her doctoral degree from the Australian National University. She is Assistant Professor at the China Programme, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her articles have appeared in International Affairs, Asian Perspective and Journal of Contemporary China.

• Chinese politics

Annual Reviews

• Selected Essays by RSIS Researchers - 2022

  16 January, 2023

IDSS Papers

• IP25083 | China’s Governance of Rare Earths and its Global Implications

  28 August, 2025

• IP25074 | Washington’s Retrenchment and Beijing’s Soft Power Push

  28 July, 2025

• IP25038 | AI-Powered Anti-Corruption Drive: The Chinese Party-State’s Fight against Graft

  24 March, 2025

• IP24090 | Global Ambassadors or Agents of Influence? How China's Diaspora Drives Xi Jinping’s Geopolitical Ambitions

  01 November, 2024

• IP24058 | Post-Plenum Analysis: China’s Third Plenary Session

  19 July, 2024

• IP24037 | China’s Two Sessions: Key Policy Priorities and Challenges

  27 March, 2024

• IP23083 | China’s Global Initiatives: Geopolitical, Economic, and Domestic Challenges

  21 November, 2023

• IP23079 | China-Myanmar Transnational Criminal Networks and China’s Overseas Interests

  14 November, 2023

• IP23015 | Domestic Politics and the US-China Chip War

  15 February, 2023

Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses (CTTA) - Volume 14 Issue 02

  03 March, 2022

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 8, Issue 01

  04 January, 2016

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 08

  17 September, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 05

  01 June, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 04

  01 May, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 02

  01 March, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 02

  01 March, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 7, Issue 01

  01 February, 2015

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 10

  01 November, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 10

  01 November, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 8

  01 October, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 6, Issue 9

  01 October, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) – Volume 6, Issue 6

  01 July, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) – Volume 6, Issue 3

  01 April, 2014

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 5, Issue 3

  01 March, 2013

• Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis (CTTA) - Volume 3, Issue 1

  03 January, 2011

RSIS Commentary Series

• Economic, Political and Security Imperatives in Xi Jinping’s Third Term

  20 October, 2022

• CO15160 | Thailand’s Uighur Refugees: Security Implications for Southeast Asia

  29 July, 2015

• CO14177 | Indonesian and Malaysian IS Supporters: Need for ‘Soft’ Approach

  10 September, 2014

Policy-relevant Articles Given RSIS Award

• “Securitization, Surveillance and ‘De-extremization’ in Xinjiang” (with Michelle Clarke) in International Affairs, 2021

Journal Articles

• “Embedding the Party in State and Society: From Integrated to Embedded Domination during China’s COVID-19 Crisis” in Embedding the Party in State and Society: From Integrated to Embedded Domination during China’s COVID-19 Crisis, 2024
• “Chinese Capital is Transforming Ethnic Relations in Host Countries” (with Camba, Alvin) in Chinese Capital is Transforming Ethnic Relations in Host Countries, 2023
• “Securitization, Surveillance and ‘De-extremization’ in Xinjiang” (with Michelle Clarke) in International Affairs, 2021

Chapters in Edited Books

• “Combating the Three Evil Forces on the Silk Road: Uyghur Terrorism and Chinese Security Diplomacy” in Michael Clarke, Matthew Sussex and Nick Bisley (Eds.), The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific. Minneapolis: Lexington Books, 2020, 71-89
• “China’s Security Imperatives and Violence in Xinjiang” in Irm Haleem (Ed.), Normalising Violence. London: Routledge, 2020, 50-63
• “Uyghur Cross-border Movement into Southeast Asia: Between Resistance and Survival” in Michael Clarke (Eds.), Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China. London: Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2018, 173-186
• “China and the Threat of Terrorism” in Hoo Tiang Boon (Eds.), Chinese Foreign Policy Under Xi. London: Routledge, 2017, 189-205
• “Singapore’s Approach to Counter Terrorism and Extremism” in Dr Beatrice Gorawantschy, Professor Rohan Gunaratna, Megha Sarmah, Patrick Rueppel, Countering Daesh Extremism – European and Asian Responses. Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2016, 139-151

Op-Eds

• “The Impact of Chinese Capital on Ethnic Minorities in the Global South, Transformations. Belt & Road in Global Perspective” (with Alvin Camba), Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, 9 April 2024
• “China’s Counterterrorism Involvement in Southeast Asia under the Global Security Initiative”, Carnegie, 28 June 2023
• “G7 initiative to counter China’s Belt and Road heats up competition – for the better”, Channel News Asia, 18 July 2022
• “Could the ISIS-K and Al Qaeda Rivalry Impact China’s Plans for Afghanistan?”, The National Interest, 6 November 2021
• “China’s long march with tech firms just got started” (with Dylan Loh), Channel News Asia, 25 October 2021
• “Could the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan inspire extremists in Southeast Asia?” (with Kumar Ramakrishna), TODAY, 23 September 2021
• “The fall of Afghanistan and its implications for China”, East Asia Forum, 21 September 2021
• “The evolution of China’s ‘preventive counterterrorism’ in Xinjiang” (with Michael Clarke), Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, 3 December 2020
• “Xinjiang and the Stability Paradox”, The Diplomat, 16 August 2018
• “Indonesian and Malaysian IS Supporters: Need for ‘Soft’ Approach” (with Sugara, R), East Asia Forum, 26 September 2014