Rühlig's original approach argues that China's foreign policy contradictions derive from competition between various legitimacy-seeking actors in the complex set-up of the Chinese party-state...This work is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of China's foreign policy decision-making that goes beyond the usual unitarystate simplifications often found in the literature.
Tim Nicholas Rühlig is a research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations and an associate fellow with The Swedish Institute of International Affairs analyzing Europe-China relations and Chinese foreign and industrial policy—including high technology and Hong Kong politics. His current projects focus on China's domestic determinants of Chinese foreign policymaking, China's growing footprint in technical standardization, the
emerging US-China technology rivalry and its implications for Europe. In addition to his academic research, Rühlig provides policy advice to European policymakers such as the European Commission. He chairs the working group "high technology and innovation" of the EU-funded COST Action "Europe in China Research Network" (CHERN) and
is a member of the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC), which he coordinated in 2018.