Dr Stefanie Kam Li Yee is an Assistant Professor at the China Programme, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She was formerly Coordinator of MSc (Asian Studies) Programme (2024-2025), Deputy Coordinator of MSc (Asian Studies) Programme (2023-2024) and currently serves as the school’s student academic integrity officer. Her research interests include Chinese politics, comparative politics, as well as China’s global rise. She has published in leading peer‑reviewed journals—International Affairs (Editor’s Choice), Asian Perspective, Journal of Contemporary China, The China Quarterly—and engages policy debates in Foreign Policy, Carnegie China, and The National Interest. Dr Kam is a regular commentator for the BBC, The Straits Times, the South China Morning Post, and CNA. Asst Prof Kam is completing a book on grassroots governance in Xinjiang and is the 2025 Dean’s nominee for the Social Science and Humanities Research Fellowship (SSHRF), Ministry of Education, Singapore. She teaches graduate seminars on Comparative Politics of Asia, Chinese Security and Foreign Policy, and Asian Security Order, and holds a PhD from the Australian National University.

• Chinese Politics
• Comparative Politics
• China’s Global Rise

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 Michael 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 Michael 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

• 2025: 18th Berlin Conference on Asian Security (BCAS), Title of talk: Indicators for the future bilateral relationship between the US and China, Berlin, Germany, 16-17 September.
• 2025: The Democracy Forum UK, Semiconductors, AI & Space: New frontiers of dominance, Title of talk: Beijing’s Techno-industrial Order, 28 May.
• 2025: East-West Center in Washington DC, Title of talk: Singapore’s Perspective on US-China Competition: Implications for Indo-Pacific Strategy and Regional Adjustments, 20 February.
• 2023: MASSA-Academia SG Roundtable on Singapore’s External Relations, Online, 8 July.
• 2023: IKMAS-EAIR Forum, Title of Talk: Why do Emerging Market Democracies Support of Mobilize against China? Southeast Asia, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea, Online, 9 October.
• 2023: Institute of Management and Leadership Development (MLD) and Belt and Road Strategic Research Centre (BRSRC), Title of Talk: How Chinese Capital Exacerbates Structural Violence of Ethnic Minorities: Externalization, Extraction and Reaffirmation in South and Southeast Asia, Onlne, 15 October.
• 2022: RSIS-Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) 4^th Strategic Dialogue, Title of Talk: Current challenges for regional order in the Indo-Pacific, SWP, Berlin, Germany, 5-6 October.
• 2022: Korea-ASEAN 2022 Next Gen Policy Experts Network, Title of Talk: After the Pandemic: Global Order, War, and the Great Powers in the Indo-Pacific, Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) and the Korea Foundation (KF), 23 June.
• 2021: Chatham House, Title of Talk: Technology and de-extremization in Xinjiang, International Affairs, Zoom, 28 July.
• 2020: Asia Pacific Security Forum, Title of Talk: Cooperation between Southeast Asia and China under ASEAN norms and principles, CGE International Exchange Center, Hainan, China, Zoom, 17 August.
• 2020: Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy, Title of Talk: China’s Weaponization of Health: Forced Sterilization, Biometric Surveillance, and COVID in Uyghur Communities, Zoom, 11 August.
• 2019: Beijing Normal University, Title of Talk: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Southeast Asia, College for Criminal Law Science of Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 20 December.
• 2019: Peking University, Title of Talk: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Southeast Asia, Institute of Area Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China, December.
• 2019: Shanghai University of Political Science and Law, Title of Talk: China’s Rise and the Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia, Shanghai Institute of Global Security Governance, Shanghai, China, 16 June.
• 2019: Shanghai Institute of International Affairs, Title of Talk: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Southeast Asia, Shanghai Institute of International Affairs, Shanghai, China, August.
• 2017: Kunming University Academic Exchange, Title of Talk: Terrorism Threat in Southeast Asia: Current Threat and Future Challenges, Kunming Strategic Study Institute for Cooperation with South and Southeast Asia and Yunnan One Belt One Road Information Centre, Kunming, Yunnan, China, 16-17 September.
• 2016: UNAS Model United Nations Preparatory Conference: East Asia Summit (EAS), Title of Talk: The Question of Combating Violent Extremism in East Asia, Singapore Institute of Management (UNISIM), Singapore, December 15.
• 2016: International Forum on the Challenges and Opportunities in Criminal Justice for Combating Terrorism, Title of Talk: Transnational Terrorism in Asia and International Cooperation in Countering Terrorism, Organised by the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of Korea, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and held at the Nine Tree Convention, Seoul, Korea, December 8-9.
• 2016: Conference on Counter-Radicalization, Title of talk: Radicalization of Uyghurs in Southeast Asia and Singapore’s Approach to Counter-Radicalization, People’s Public Security University of China, Beijing, China, November 13-14.
• 2016:  Securing the Belt and Road Initiative: Risk assessment, Private Security and Special Insurances along the new wave of Chinese FDI, Title of talk: Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Risks and Implications for China’s One-Belt-One-Road, Co-organized by The China Programme, RSIS; The Security and Crisis Management Joint Program (SCM), Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) and the University of Turin (UNITO), Copthorne King’s Hotel, Singapore, October 28.

• Comparative Politics of Asia
• Chinese Security and Foreign Policy
• Asian Security Order