Gregory T. Chin
Associate Professor
Office: Ross Building, S632
Phone: (416) 736-2100
Email: gtchin@yorku.ca
Gregory Chin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University (Canada). He was the Mayling Birney Global Scholar at The London School of Economics and Political Science from 2022 until 2023. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Global China Initiative at Boston University's Global Development Policy Center, and of the Foreign Policy Institute at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He served as External Examiner for Hong Kong Education University's Global and Environmental Studies Program from 2018-2022. His research on China, Asia, the BRICS, global governance, and the political economy of international money and finance started in the early 1990s, and spans four decades. His recent publications include "US Financial Statecraft and China" (published in Italian by Istituto Treccani), and "Geopolitics and Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre". Latest report, policy paper or commentary: "Lula and Washington: Brazil between the Superpowers, Part 2", posted online by Global Policy journal. Recent presentation, “China's Global Rise: The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency”, LSE Public Lecture, and recent CBC News interview on Canada's China policy. Quoted in The Wire on the Renminbi's role in dealing with US sanctions, Time Magazine on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, The Economist on the BRICS-led New Development Bank, and The Financial Times on China and global economic governance.
He co-directs the “Emerging Global Governance” (EGG) Project with Dr. Eva-Maria Nag, Executive Editor of the journal Global Policy.
Expert Reviewer and Contributor to the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation "South-South Ideas Paper Series" and the research work of the UNOSSC.
Advisory or editorial board member of the journals Review of International Political Economy, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, and Journal of East Asian Studies. Co-editor of Review of International Political Economy from 2012-2015.
SSHRC-funded multi-year project on the "Political Economy of China's Currency Choices" (2010-2013). (with Paul Bowles [PI] and Wang Baotai at University of Northern British Columbia)
Projects and research papers on currency internationalization and regional financial cooperation with the Asian Development Bank (Manila), Asian Development Bank Institute (Tokyo), and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKIMR).
Contributed to writing the United Nations Development Programme-China Development Bank Joint Report on Harmonizing Investment and Financing Standards Along the Belt & Road, published November 2019
Wrote the Report for Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) on "China's Evolving Support for Scientific and Development Research in Developing Countries" (June 2019); Report for IDRC on "China's Rise as an Emerging Donor" (2007); and led the "Rising Aid Donors: The BRICS and Beyond" project funded by IDRC (2010-11).
Visiting fellowships at Peking University (1997-1998, Canada-China Exchange Scholarship), University of Cambridge (Darwin College & the Department of Politics and International Studies, April-May 2010), University of Sheffield (Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, June-July 2014), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, June 2016), The London School of Economics and Political Science (October-November 2022), and Boston University (May 2023).
Assessed grant proposals for The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the UK, the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, and The Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
Reviewed journal article submissions for Asian Survey, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, The China Quarterly, The China Journal, China Information, China Review, European Journal of International Relations, International Journal, International Political Science Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, The Journal of Development Studies, Review of International Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, World Politics.
Reviewed book manuscripts and book proposals for Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Toronto Press and Yale University Press.
From 2000 to 2006, Chin served in the Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the Canadian Embassy in Beijing. Member of the Interdepartmental "China Watchers" Group, chaired by The Privy Council Office, IAS (2001-2003). Received the "Citation of Excellence" from the Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien for work on the 2001 Team Canada Mission to China (Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong). Embassy core team for Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin's official visit to China in January 2005.
Prior to joining York University in 2007, he was First Secretary (Development) at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing 2003-2006. He handled strategic policy engagement with decision-makers in China, government agencies, key Chinese think tanks, and liaised with diplomatic representatives of other countries, the major multilateral development banks and international organizations, and private international foundations and donors.
He designed and managed Canada's large-scale multi-year official development assistance programs and projects in China in the areas of governance reform, economic and social development, infrastructure development, and environmental protection (projects spanning 2001-2011). He maintained the watching brief (2004-06) on Canada's humanitarian assistance to North Korea delivered via the United Nations, specifically the UNDP, WHO, WFP, FAO, and UNICEF.
Degrees
PhD Political Science, York UniversityAppointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesCommunity Contributions
Recent Keynote Lectures or Invited Presentations
*Erasmus (EU) Blended Intensive Program, Invited Online Lecture on "Digital Yuan, from Local to Global?: RMB Internationalization in the Making", co-hosted by University of Turin (Italy), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris, France), and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), March 20, 2024
*University of Toronto, presentation on Canada's Approach to China during the Chrétien Years, Department of History, Course instructed by Professor John Meehan on "Canada and Asia in Revolution, 1945 to the Present", Trinity College, November 23, 2023
* The Shanghai Forum, "Digital Yuan and Inclusive Development ", Fudan University, Institute for Global Public Policy, Shanghai, October 29, 2023
* Fudan University, "Studying Renminbi Internationalization: A Dynamic IPE Perspective and Its Main Contributions", School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai, October 26, 2023
* Boston University, Global Development Policy Center, Global China Initiative visit as Senior Research Fellow, Boston, USA, May 2023
* The China Roundtable, "China's Foreign Policy after the Two Sessions 2023" [invitation only], hosted by Department of Finance Canada and Global Affairs Canada, Ottawa, 20 April 2023
* University of Turin, "US Financial Warfare on China - New Type of Cold War?", TOChina Seminar Program, March 20, 2023
* International Studies Association Committee Panel, "Diversifying Conversations in International Political Economy - Insights from the Global South", Montreal, March 2023
* Carleton University, presentation at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs on "Global Monetary Disorder and China's Renminbi Internationalization", Ottawa, January 13, 2023
* Peking University, Overseas Scholar Lecture on "The International Organization of the Belt and Road Initiative: Nesting in China-led Institution-Building", School of International Studies, November 28, 2022
* The London School of Economics and Political Science, Inaugural Mayling Birney Memorial Lecture: "China's Global Rise -- The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency", LSE Public Lecture, London, UK, November 15, 2022
* Fudan University, Shanghai and The London School of Economics and Political Science, Research Workshop on "China and the Global South", November 8, 2022
* Carleton University and University of Victoria, "Concluding Remarks" at Conference "Hardtalk: Canada and the Asia Pacific" (timestamp 5:53:22), and iaffairs Interview, Ottawa, October 24, 2022
* University of Victoria, "Renminbi Internationalization: Government and Corporate Drivers and the Impact of COVID-19?", Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, Victoria, British Columbia, October 20, 2022
* Book launch for Canada Among Nations 2021, hosted by Sarwar Kashmeri on PolarisLive, October 3, 2022
* University of British Columbia, presentation on "China's Arrival - Globalization and Global Governance", Department of Political Science, course instructed by the Honourable Sergio Marchi on "Globalization and the Challenges of Global Governance", September 26, 2022
* University of Manitoba, Inaugural Tony T.K. Lau Lecture on Contemporary China, Winnipeg, September 22, 2022
* University of Toronto, presentation of paper, "Canada's Relations with China during the Chrétien Years", Conference on "Chrétien's World: Canadian Foreign Policy, 1993-2003", hosted by The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto, September 9, 2022
* Dartmouth College, Lecture on "The United States and China in a New World Order", Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, May 16, 2022
* Global Affairs Canada, Excellence Hour, discussion with Canadian Consul General in Hong Kong and Gregory Chin on "Hong Kong's future as an International Financial Center", May 5, 2022
* United States Institute of Peace, Expert discussion on "China and Global Conflict Prevention Norms", USIP, Washington DC, April 25, 2022
* Johns Hopkins University, “Diplomatic Capacity Index Expert Roundtable”, Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, April 5, 2022
* The Evolution of the New Development Bank e-workshop, for the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project, March 23-24, 2022
* Goethe University Frankfurt, "Europe's Unique Role in Renminbi Internationalization", Graduate Program in Modern East Asian Studies, Economic Aspects, Germany, February 8, 2022
* University of Toronto, discussant for the book talk of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia, by David Lampton, Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik, The Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, January 20, 2022
* Interview with Sarwar A. Kashmeri, Host for Polaris-Live: US and China in the World, November 24, 2021
* Kyoto Peace Conference 2021, panel presentation on the "The Unintended Consequences of US Financial Warfare on China and Hong Kong", hosted by International Peace and Sustainability Organization, panel sponsored by Torino World Affairs Institute and IPSO, Kyoto, Japan, October 30, 2021
* Boston University, discussant for Paulo Nogueira Batista Júnior book talk, The BRICS and the Financing Mechanisms They Created, hosted by BU Global Development Policy Center and the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston, USA, October 28, 2021
* Carleton University, "Canada-China Relations amid the U.S.-China Trade War", workshop for Canada Among Nations 2021, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa, October 16, 2021
* University of Toronto and Charhar Institute (Beijing), "Canada-China Forum", June 28, 2021
* Università di Torino, "Chinese Development Finance" and "Renminbi Internationalization and the Belt and Road", TOChina Summer School, Italy, June 21, 2021
* Brown University, Workshop on "Economic Warfare: What Can World War One Tell Us About 21st Century Conflicts?", Brown University, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, and The US Naval War College, April-May 2021
* Università di Torino, "Summitry and Corporate-Government Relations for the Belt and Road", TOChina Spring Seminar (webinar), Italy, April 7, 2021
* Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Global Studies Program, webinar presentation on "Bridging Western and Chinese Civilizations for Global Governance", March 1, 2021
* Brown University, "Central Banking in China: The PBOC in Comparative and International Perspective", webinar presentation to the Politics of Central Banking Working Group, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, January 29, 2021
* Canadian International Council, virtual panel on "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in the Asia-Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada" (with Senator Yuen Pau Woo and Ambassador Bruce Jutzi), CIC National Capital Branch, Ottawa, December 16, 2020
* Digital Yuan and RMB Internationalization Along the Belt and Road", webinar presentation to the South-South and Triangular Cooperation among Maritime-Continental Silk Road Cities for Sustainable Development Project, UNOSSC Cities Project, November 13, 2020 (Beijing time zone)
* Global Affairs Canada, Excellence Hour, discussion with Canadian Ambassador Dominic Barton and Gregory Chin on "A Proposal for a Bold Rethink of Canada's Approach to China", September 4, 2020 (Beijing time zone)
* Center for Global Development (Washington DC), Expert panel member for "AIIB: The Next Five Years", Conversation with Sir Danny Alexander, AIIB Vice President, moderated by Scott Morris, Senior Fellow, CGD, July 9, 2020
* Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Moderator and discussant for webinar presentation by former IMF First Deputy Managing Director, Dr. John Lipsky on "Economic Prospects and Global Policy Collaboration in a Time of the COVID 19 Crisis", April 30, 2020
* ISA Presidential Panel, Sapphire Series, "Institutional Diversity and Regional Orders", and Roundtable on "Diversity in the Global Currency System: Good, Bad or Inevitable?", ISA Annual Conference, Hawaii, USA, March 2020 (cancelled due to COVID 19)
* University of Southern California, "Transnational Lineages of the Developmental State" workshop, USC, Los Angeles, USA, February 28, 2020
* Finance Canada and Global Affairs Canada, Presentation on "Reading the Tea Leaves of China in 2020: Political Dimensions", The China Roundtable, Ottawa, January 23, 2020
* Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies, presentation on "The AIIB: New Multilateralism for the Emerging World Order", Boston, November 4, 2019
* Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin, Germany, September 19, 2019
* Invited Presenter, German Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin, Germany, September 18, 2019
* Speaker on Panel at Harvard University Professor Ezra Vogel's Keynote Address, York University, Toronto, September 13, 2019
* European University Institute, "China's Financial Diplomacy: Recent Trends, Forthcoming Challenges" and "Envisioning China's Global Future Scenarios", Fiesole, Italy, July 8-10, 2019
* Presentation of Report for IDRC on "China's Evolving Support for Scientific and Development Research in Developing Countries", IDRC Headquarters, Ottawa, June 14, 2019
* University of Ottawa and Carleton University, Presentation on "Clarifying Canada's Strategic Choices: Canada-US/China Relations", Conference on Canada-China Relations in Crisis, Ottawa, June 13, 2019
* Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, FPI Fellows Lecture, Washington DC, April 11, 2019
* ISA Distinguished Scholar Panel (in honour of Andrew F. Cooper), Toronto, Canada, March 28, 2019
* Invited Speaker, Thomas Shoyama Annual Lecture, Department of Finance Canada, Ottawa, December 11, 2018 (Keynote Presentation by Lord Jim O'Neill, Chair of Chatham House)
* University of California San Diego, Workshop on Summit Diplomacy in Asia: Political and Economic Tracks, School of Global Policy and Strategy, USA, October 19, 2018 (Essay published in Global Asia)
* European University Institute, "China's Financial Diplomacy" and "The Future of the New Development Bank", EUI, Academy of Global Governance, Florence, Italy, October 4-6, 2018
* South African Institute of International Affairs and the National Treasury of South Africa, "Pre-BRICS Summit Meeting on the BRICS and Africa", Johannesburg/Sandton, South Africa, July 24, 2018
* Balsillie School of International Affairs, discussant on Comparing the Modalities of the NDB and the AIIB, Waterloo, July 16, 2018
* Department of Finance, Government of Canada, "Canada-China Relations: Lessons from the Strange Tale of the Renminbi and the SDR", Ottawa, March 7, 2018
* Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, "Think Forum - The Future of Global Governance", Washington DC, September 28, 2017
* Boston University, Pardee School, "Beyond Betton Woods" workshop, Boston, September 15, 2017
* International Studies Association, International Conference, Hong Kong, June 2017
* The University of British Columbia, "Making an International Currency: Renminbi Internationalization", April 27, 2017
* Princeton University, PIIRS Research Community on Empires and the Princeton-Harvard China & the World Program, Panel on "China's Expansionism - New Informal Empire?, April 17, 2017
* ISA Presidential Theme Panel on "Making Change Peaceful: Exploring Mechanisms", Baltimore, February 2017
* Export Development Canada and Conference Board of Canada, "Canada's Renminbi Hub", Ottawa, November 2, 2016
* Department of Finance, Government of Canada, "Green Finance: China as Global Financial Innovator", Ottawa, October 31, 2016
* Carleton University, SSHRC-funded Workshop on "Canada and China in the Pacific Century", Ottawa, October 28, 2016
* University of California Berkeley, "Shaping a New Political-Economic Order in the Asia-Pacific", October 21, 2016
* Boston University, UNCTAD-GEGI Workshop on Development Finance Institutions of the South, October 12, 2016
* New Development Bank (NDB), Shanghai, May 31, 2016
* Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), Shanghai, May 30, 2016
* Shanghai Forum, hosted at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 29, 2016
* The Tobin Project, "Reassessing Threat Assessment", Washington, DC, May 2016
* Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies, "China's Rising Economic Statecraft - Development Finance in Perspective", April 1, 2016
* Global Affairs Canada, "China in Africa", Ottawa, November 5, 2015
* Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Foreign Policy Institute, Washington, DC, October 16, 2015
* Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 6, 2015
* Danmarks Nationalbank, "Chinese Monetary Policy and Internationalization of the Renminbi", Copenhagen, Denmark, October 5, 2015
* University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, 3rd Annual Conference, Philadelphia, USA, April 31-May 1, 2015
* ISA Opening Presidential Panel, FLASCO-ISA Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2014
* ISA Presidential Panel in Honour of Benjamin J. Cohen, Argentina, July 2014
* Cornell University, Presentation on The Political Economy of Renminbi Internationalization, February 2014
* Brown University, Presentation on China as a Foreign Aid Giver, November 2013
* Peking University, School of International Studies, and UNU-WIDER, Workshop on Transational Policy Networks, Asia and Europe, September 2012
* University of Southern California, "Presentation on Trans-Pacific Options for Global Rebalancing", April 2011
* University of Cambridge, Presentation on "Regionalization of the Renminbi", May 2010
* Princeton University, Workshop on Rising States, Rising Institutions, August 2008
* Testimony on Canada-China Political Relations before the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee of the Parliament of Canada, Ottawa, May 2008
* University of the West Indies, Inaugural Chinese New Year Lecture, "In the Shadow of Great Power Rivalry: The Global Rise of China in the Caribbean", UWI Institute of International Relations, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad, February 2008
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
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Contributing author for the Project, "Chrétien's World", on Canada's foreign policy during the period of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, 1993-2003.
Description:The Project is led and organized by the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, and supported by Global Affairs Canada.
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The Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project is a collaborative research initiative led by Gregory Chin at York University (Canada) and Eva-Maria Nag at Global Policy journal, Durham University, as the principal partners, and The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Foreign Policy Institute as a legacy partner. The EGG project profiles new evidence-based research and analysis of distinguished thinkers and practitioners on emerging issues, actors and arrangements in global governance.
Description:The goal of the EGG Project is to bridge the ongoing gap in knowledge-sharing between the scholarly and policy communities. The Project brings together leading scholars, early-career scholars, and policy practitioners to profile leading-edge research on key emerging issues and emerging actors in global governance, global collective action, global public goods provision, and global risk management across the range of relevant sectors and issue-areas, including global economy and development; the biosphere, environment, and climate change; global security; global health; digitalization, artificial intelligence, big data; global indigenous rights; international migration.
- Month: Aug Year: 2016
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Research and Book Project
Description:The field research, writing and publishing has been ongoing since 2009. Chin is currently completing a book manuscript on the political economy of the internationalization of China's currency, Renminbi. The Project publications, to date, include:
G.T. Chin, "Cat's Out of the Bag: China's Currency Challenge", July 2009
G.T. Chin and Wang Yong, "China Debates: The Dollar System and Beyond", in Chatham House Report, Beyond the Dollar: Rethinking the International Monetary System (2010)
G.T. Chin and Wang Yong, "Debating the International Currency System: What's in a Speech", China Security, 6(1), 2010, pp.3-20
G.T. Chin, "RMB Internationalization: Singapore Style", July 2012
G.T. Chin, "Off to the RMB Races: The Singapore Stock Exchange", July 2012
G.T. Chin, "Globalizing the RMB", Asian Development Bank - Asia Pathways, July 2014
G.T. Chin, "China's Rising Monetary Power", in E. Helleiner and J. Kirshner (eds.), The Great Wall of Money (Cornell University Press, 2014)
G.T. Chin, "True Revisionist: China and the Global Monetary System", in J. deLisle and A. Goldstein (eds.), China's Global Engagement (Brookings Institution Press, 2016)
G.T. Chin, LSE Public Lecture: "China's Global Rise: The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency", November 15, 2022.
- Month: Jan Year: 2009
The Political Economy of Renminbi Internationalization (in process)
JOURNAL SPECIAL SECTION (Guest Editor)
"The Evolution of the BRICS-led New Development Bank", Global Policy, forthcoming 2023
JOURNAL SPECIAL SECTION (Guest Editor)
"The AIIB in Global Perspective: Early Development, Innovation, and Future Agendas", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019. (co-edited with Giuseppe Gabusi, Carla M. Freeman and Giovanni Andornino)
International Political Economy in China: The Global Conversation. Routledge, 2015 (co-edited with Margaret M. Pearson and Wang Yong)
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE (Guest Editor)
"International Political Economy in China", Review of International Political Economy, 20(6), 2013 (co-edited with Margaret Pearson)
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE (Guest Editor)
"Rising States, Rising Donors - BRICS and Beyond", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012
China’s Automotive Modernization: The Party-State and Multinational Corporations. Palgrave Macmillan, International Political Economy Series, 2010.
"Geopolitics and Hong Kong as International Financial Centre: A Dynamic IPE Perspective" in Tai-Lok Lui, Ingyu Oh and Chris Rowley (eds.), Hong Kong as a Global Business and Financial Hub: Navigating the Turbulence and Challenges (Routledge, 2024).
"China and the United Nations Secretariat: A Mutual Infuencing Game", in Kendall Stiles and Joel Oestreich (eds.), Global Institutions in a Time of Power Transition: Governing Turbulence (Edward Elgar, The ACUNS Series on the UN System, 2023).
"Canada Amid the US-China Trade War: What Happened to the Canada-China FTA?", in Canada Among Nations 2021: Canada and Great Power Competition (Palgrave/Springer, 2022).
"Infrastructure at the G20", in Jan Wouters and Dries Lesage (eds.), The G20, Development and the UN Agenda 2030 (Routledge, 2022) (coauthored with Zhu Jiejin)
"Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Governance Innovation and Prospects", in Kurt Mills and Kendall Stiles (eds.), Understanding Global Cooperation: Twenty-Five Years of Research on Global Governance (Brill, 2021).
"The Evolution of Government-MNC Relations in China", in Zhang Xiaoke and Zhu Tianbiao (eds.), Business, Government and Economic Institutions in China (Springer, 2018)
"True Revisionist: China and the Global Monetary System", in Jacques deLisle and Avery Goldstein (eds.), China's Global Engagement: Cooperation, Conflict, and Influence in the 21st Century (Brookings Institution Press, 2017).
"The State of the Art: Trends in the Study of the BRICS and Multilateral Organizations", in Dries Lesage and Thijs Van de Graff (eds.) Rising Powers and Multilateral Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
"The World Bank and China: The Long Decade of Realignment", in Carla Freeman (ed.), Research Handbook on China and Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 2015).
"China's Rising Monetary Power", in Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner (eds.), The Great Wall of Money: Power and Politics in China's International Monetary Relations (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014)
"Asian Regionalism after the Global Financial Crisis", in Giovanni Capannelli and Masahiro Kawai (eds.), The Political Economy of Asian Regionalism (New York & London: Springer/Series of the Asian Development Bank, 2014).
"Consultative Forums: State Power and Multilateral Institutions", in B. Currie-Adler, R. Kanbur, D. Malone and R. Medhora (eds.), International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). (coauthored with Jorge Heine)
"The Economic Diplomacy of the Rising Powers", in A. Cooper, J. Heine and R. Thakur (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
"China's Rising Institutional Influence", in A. Alexandroff and A. Cooper (eds.), Rising States, Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance. (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010)
"Mediating Financial Instability: China, the BRICs and Continuing Rise", in Paolo Savona, John Kirton and Chiara Oldani (eds.) Global Financial Crisis: Global Impact and Solutions (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011).
"Reforming the WTO: China, The Doha Round, and Beyond", in Amrita Narlikar and Brendan Vickers (eds.), Leadership and Change in the Multilateral Trading System (Leiden: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff Academic Publishers, 2009).
"China's G8 Engagement: Complex Interests and Multiple Identity in Global Governance" in Andrew F. Cooper and Agata Antkiewicz (eds.), Emerging Powers in Global Governance: Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2008). Chinese translation published by Shanghai People's Publishing House and Shanghai International Studies University.
"Toward a China Model? : The Sequencing of China's Governance Reforms and Internationalization", in Huang Ping and Cui Zhiyuan (eds.), China and Globalization: Washington Consensus, Beijing Consensus or What? (Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2006)
“The Politics of China’s Western Development Initiative”, in Lu Ding and William A.W. Neilson (eds.) China’s West Region Development: Domestic Strategies and Global Implications (Singapore: World Scientific Press, 2004).
"Geopolitics and Hong Kong as International Financial Centre: A Dynamic IPE Perspective", in Asia Pacific Business Review, special issue on, "After the Storm: Hong Kong as a Global Business Hub in the Asia-Pacific", 28(5), 2022
"US Financial Statecraft on China and Hong Kong: Unintended Consequences across the Asia Pacific", in Asia Prospects: Drivers of Global Change, The University of Turin and Torino World Affairs Institute, July 2021, pp.10-17.
"US-China Relations and Remaking Global Governance: From Stalemate and Progress to Crisis to Resolutions", Asian Perspective, 45(1), Winter 2021, pp. 91-109.
"Coordinated Credit Spaces: The Globalization of Chinese Development Finance", Development & Change , 50(1), January 2019 (co-authored with Kevin P. Gallagher)
"The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - New Multilateralism: Early Development, Innovation and Future Agendas", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019, pp.569-581.
"The AIIB and Sustainable Infrastructure: A Hybrid Layered Approach", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019, pp.593-603. (coauthored with Karin Costa Vazquez)
"An Uncomfortable Truth: Canada's Wary Ambivalence to Chinese Corporate Takeovers", International Journal, 73(3), September 2018, pp.399-428.
"Brazil in Regional and Global Governance: Foreign Policy, Leadership, and UNASUR", International Organisations Research Journal, 11(2), 2016, pp.71-96. (coauthored with Ismael Diaz)
"Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Governance Innovation and Prospects", Global Governance, 22(1), 2016, pp.11-26.
"China's Presidency of the G20 Hangzhou: On Global Leadership and Strategy", Global Summitry, 2016 (coauthored with Hugo Dobson)
"What is Next?... for World Order and Global Governance", Global Policy, November 2016 (coauthored with Carla Freeman)
"China's Bold Economic Statecraft", Current History, 114(773), September 2015
"The BRICS-Led Development Bank: Purpose and Politics Beyond the G20", Global Policy, 5(3), September 2014.
"Creating Space for China's Rise: Reshaping the Bretton Woods System" [Chinese], Fudan (University) International Studies Review (published by Shanghai People's Publishing House), Volume 13, 2013. ISBN 978-7-208-11954-3/D·2406 (coauthored with Karl Yan)
Special Issue on International System Change and New Great Power Relations (edited by Zhang Jianxin).
"Turning Point: International Money and Finance in Chinese IPE", Review of International Political Economy, 20(6), December 2013. (coauthored with Wang Xin)
"Introduction: IPE with China's Characteristics", Review of International Political Economy, 20(6), December 2013. (coauthored with Margaret Pearson and Wang Yong)
"Understanding Currency Policy and Central Banking in China", The Journal of Asian Studies, 72(3), August 2013.
"China as a 'Net Donor': Tracking Dollars and Sense", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012.
"Introduction: Rising States, Rising Donors and the Global Aid Regime", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012 (coauthored with Fahimul Quadir)
"Two-Way Socialization: China, the World Bank and Hegemonic Weakening", The Brown Journal of World Affairs, 19(1), Fall-Winter 2012, pp.211-230.
"Between Innovation and Preservation: Remaking China's Leadership Training System", The China Quarterly, 205, March 2011.
"China, Regional Institution-Building and the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area", Review of International Political Economy, 18(3), August 2011. (coauthored with Richard Stubbs)
"Realigning Global Governance: Regionalism in China's Financial Rise", Harvard Asia Quarterly, May 2011.
"Emerging Donors in International Development Assistance: The Case of China", International Organizations Research Journal [Russian, translated by Y. Zaytsev, ed. by V. Nagornov], 5(2), November 2010, pp.142-58 (with B. M. Frolic)
"Debating the International Currency System", China Security 6:1, 2010 (coauthored with Wang Yong).
"Remaking the Architecture: The Emerging Powers, Self-Insuring and Regional Insulation", International Affairs 86(3), May 2010.
"The Emerging Countries and China in the G20: Reshaping Global Economic Governance", Studia Diplomatica (The Brussels Journal of International Relations), 63(2), November 2010, pp.105-123.
"Will China Change the Rules of Global Order?", The Washington Quarterly, October 2010 (coauthored with Ramesh Thakur).
"Emerging Powers and Africa: Implications for/from Global Governance", Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 36(1), April 2009. (coauthored with Timothy Shaw and Andrew Cooper)
"Shifting Purpose: Asia's Economic Rise and Canada's Foreign Aid Response", International Journal 64(4) Autumn 2009.
China as a Creditor: A Rising Financial Power?", Journal of International Affairs (Columbia University), 62(1), Fall 2008, pp.87-102 (coauthored with Eric Helleiner).
“China's Rural Land Reforms and Its Impacts” (Chinese), Academia: Special Issue on Rural Affairs and Development (published by People’s University Press), 1(1), 2006.
“Securing a Rural Land Market: The Determinants of Institutional Change in China’s Agriculture Sector”, Asian Perspective 29(4), 2005, pp.209-244.
"China and the Developmental State: The International Transmission of the Idea (or Ideas)", conference paper at, "Transnational Lineages of the Development State", University of Southern California, USA, February 2020.
"Renminbi internationalization, China's distinct policymaking: From local experimentation to international diffusion", presented at ISA, New Orleans, March 2015
"The State of the Art on rising powers and multilateral reform" (keynote), the 6th Annual WIRE (Workshop on International Relations), September 2013, cohosted by Ghent University, Free University of Brussels, and University Saint-Louis Brussels
"Conceptualizing China's rising international monetary power", workshop on the Politics of China's International Monetary Relations, 17 November 2012, Cornell University
"Transnational policy networks in Asia: The case of AMRO", workshop of the UNU-CRIS on Transnational Policy Networks, Asia and Europe, September 2012, Peking University
"Global financial rebalancing: Trans-Pacific options", conference on "Redefining the Pacific", 8 April 2011, University of Southern California
"China and global governance", 7th US-EU Dialogue on China, Paris, France, November 2011, co-hosted by Asia Centre at Science Po and the China Policy Program of the Sigur Center at George Washington University
"China and international monetary reform", conference on Global Governance Reform, October 2011, hosted by the Center of Global Governance at Renmin University China, Beijing
"China's Party-led financial supervision", workshop on the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party, March 2010, Boston University
"China watching: exceptionalism and dual status in global development", Beijing Forum 2010: Collection of Papers, November 2010
"China as a rising financial power", workshop on Rising Powers, 26 August 2008, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Princeton University
"Internationalizing the Chinese Communist Party", workshop on Globalization and the State, 20 May 2008, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
“The AIIB: Rapid Response and Flexibility, Containing COVID-19”, University of Turin, Torino World Affairs Institute (Twai), T.note Number 84, June 2020.
"Tangled Ties: RCEP, TPP and the US-China Trade War", in Global Asia, 13(4), December 2018
"China's Challenge in Africa", YaleGlobal Yale University, The MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies, July 2014
(Reposted on the Future of Learning Institute, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Learning Hub)
"Why the People's Bank of China is Stronger than You Think", East Asia Forum (East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Australia National University), November 2013
"Currency Internationalization in Asia", East Asia Forum (East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Australia), January 2013. Republished in Chinese, in Global Studies Journal (published by The Global Studies Institute, Hong Kong), Issue 10, 2013.
"Assessing China's Global Impact - Implications for Canada & Response Options", (Government of Canada, March 2012)
"Managing Aid Transition: Exit Strategy, Graduation or Status Quo", Au Courant (Canadian International Development Agency, Policy Research Division), Issue 4, September 2012
"Responding to the Global Financial Crisis: The Evolution of Asian Regionalism and Economic Globalization", ADBI Working Paper No.343, published by Asian Development Bank Institute, January 2012
"The Impact of the Rising Powers on Global Economic Governance" (Spanish), Anuario Asia-Pacifico [Asia Pacific Yearbook] 2010-2011 Edition, published by Real Instituto Elcano, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs & Casa Asia (Spain).
"China Debates the Dollar System and Beyond", in Beyond the Dollar: Rethinking the International Dollar System, Chatham House Report, March 2010. (coauthored with Wang Yong)
"Calling China's Bluff", in foreignpolicy.com, January 2009 (coauthored with Eric Helleiner)
"Globalizing the RMB?: Beijing Appoints Three New Clearing Banks in London, Frankfurt and Seoul", Asia Pathways - Asian Development Bank Institute, 29 July 2014.
"Synthesis Report: The Security Dimensions of an Influential China", (Government of Canada, March 2013)
"How Cohesive are the BRICS?", Centre Asia Memo (report on debate with Gregory Chin), Paris, 10 April 2012 (by David Peneau, published in French and English).
"Emerging Donors in International Development Assistance: The China Case", IDRC Research Report, International Development Research Center, December 2007 (with B. Michael Frolic)
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
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| Winter 2024 | GS/POLS6625 3.0 | M | The Political Economy of the BRICS | SEMR |
| Winter 2024 | AP/POLS4595 3.0 | N | Asia in the New Global Order | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2023 | GS/POLS6410 6.0 | A | The Study Of Comparative Politics | SEMR |
Gregory Chin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University (Canada). He was the Mayling Birney Global Scholar at The London School of Economics and Political Science from 2022 until 2023. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Global China Initiative at Boston University's Global Development Policy Center, and of the Foreign Policy Institute at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He served as External Examiner for Hong Kong Education University's Global and Environmental Studies Program from 2018-2022. His research on China, Asia, the BRICS, global governance, and the political economy of international money and finance started in the early 1990s, and spans four decades. His recent publications include "US Financial Statecraft and China" (published in Italian by Istituto Treccani), and "Geopolitics and Hong Kong as an International Financial Centre". Latest report, policy paper or commentary: "Lula and Washington: Brazil between the Superpowers, Part 2", posted online by Global Policy journal. Recent presentation, “China's Global Rise: The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency”, LSE Public Lecture, and recent CBC News interview on Canada's China policy. Quoted in The Wire on the Renminbi's role in dealing with US sanctions, Time Magazine on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, The Economist on the BRICS-led New Development Bank, and The Financial Times on China and global economic governance.
He co-directs the “Emerging Global Governance” (EGG) Project with Dr. Eva-Maria Nag, Executive Editor of the journal Global Policy.
Expert Reviewer and Contributor to the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation "South-South Ideas Paper Series" and the research work of the UNOSSC.
Advisory or editorial board member of the journals Review of International Political Economy, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, and Journal of East Asian Studies. Co-editor of Review of International Political Economy from 2012-2015.
SSHRC-funded multi-year project on the "Political Economy of China's Currency Choices" (2010-2013). (with Paul Bowles [PI] and Wang Baotai at University of Northern British Columbia)
Projects and research papers on currency internationalization and regional financial cooperation with the Asian Development Bank (Manila), Asian Development Bank Institute (Tokyo), and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKIMR).
Contributed to writing the United Nations Development Programme-China Development Bank Joint Report on Harmonizing Investment and Financing Standards Along the Belt & Road, published November 2019
Wrote the Report for Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) on "China's Evolving Support for Scientific and Development Research in Developing Countries" (June 2019); Report for IDRC on "China's Rise as an Emerging Donor" (2007); and led the "Rising Aid Donors: The BRICS and Beyond" project funded by IDRC (2010-11).
Visiting fellowships at Peking University (1997-1998, Canada-China Exchange Scholarship), University of Cambridge (Darwin College & the Department of Politics and International Studies, April-May 2010), University of Sheffield (Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, June-July 2014), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, June 2016), The London School of Economics and Political Science (October-November 2022), and Boston University (May 2023).
Assessed grant proposals for The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the UK, the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, and The Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
Reviewed journal article submissions for Asian Survey, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, The China Quarterly, The China Journal, China Information, China Review, European Journal of International Relations, International Journal, International Political Science Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, The Journal of Development Studies, Review of International Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, World Politics.
Reviewed book manuscripts and book proposals for Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Toronto Press and Yale University Press.
From 2000 to 2006, Chin served in the Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the Canadian Embassy in Beijing. Member of the Interdepartmental "China Watchers" Group, chaired by The Privy Council Office, IAS (2001-2003). Received the "Citation of Excellence" from the Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien for work on the 2001 Team Canada Mission to China (Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong). Embassy core team for Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin's official visit to China in January 2005.
Prior to joining York University in 2007, he was First Secretary (Development) at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing 2003-2006. He handled strategic policy engagement with decision-makers in China, government agencies, key Chinese think tanks, and liaised with diplomatic representatives of other countries, the major multilateral development banks and international organizations, and private international foundations and donors.
He designed and managed Canada's large-scale multi-year official development assistance programs and projects in China in the areas of governance reform, economic and social development, infrastructure development, and environmental protection (projects spanning 2001-2011). He maintained the watching brief (2004-06) on Canada's humanitarian assistance to North Korea delivered via the United Nations, specifically the UNDP, WHO, WFP, FAO, and UNICEF.
Degrees
PhD Political Science, York UniversityAppointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesCommunity Contributions
Recent Keynote Lectures or Invited Presentations
*Erasmus (EU) Blended Intensive Program, Invited Online Lecture on "Digital Yuan, from Local to Global?: RMB Internationalization in the Making", co-hosted by University of Turin (Italy), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris, France), and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), March 20, 2024
*University of Toronto, presentation on Canada's Approach to China during the Chrétien Years, Department of History, Course instructed by Professor John Meehan on "Canada and Asia in Revolution, 1945 to the Present", Trinity College, November 23, 2023
* The Shanghai Forum, "Digital Yuan and Inclusive Development ", Fudan University, Institute for Global Public Policy, Shanghai, October 29, 2023
* Fudan University, "Studying Renminbi Internationalization: A Dynamic IPE Perspective and Its Main Contributions", School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai, October 26, 2023
* Boston University, Global Development Policy Center, Global China Initiative visit as Senior Research Fellow, Boston, USA, May 2023
* The China Roundtable, "China's Foreign Policy after the Two Sessions 2023" [invitation only], hosted by Department of Finance Canada and Global Affairs Canada, Ottawa, 20 April 2023
* University of Turin, "US Financial Warfare on China - New Type of Cold War?", TOChina Seminar Program, March 20, 2023
* International Studies Association Committee Panel, "Diversifying Conversations in International Political Economy - Insights from the Global South", Montreal, March 2023
* Carleton University, presentation at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs on "Global Monetary Disorder and China's Renminbi Internationalization", Ottawa, January 13, 2023
* Peking University, Overseas Scholar Lecture on "The International Organization of the Belt and Road Initiative: Nesting in China-led Institution-Building", School of International Studies, November 28, 2022
* The London School of Economics and Political Science, Inaugural Mayling Birney Memorial Lecture: "China's Global Rise -- The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency", LSE Public Lecture, London, UK, November 15, 2022
* Fudan University, Shanghai and The London School of Economics and Political Science, Research Workshop on "China and the Global South", November 8, 2022
* Carleton University and University of Victoria, "Concluding Remarks" at Conference "Hardtalk: Canada and the Asia Pacific" (timestamp 5:53:22), and iaffairs Interview, Ottawa, October 24, 2022
* University of Victoria, "Renminbi Internationalization: Government and Corporate Drivers and the Impact of COVID-19?", Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, Victoria, British Columbia, October 20, 2022
* Book launch for Canada Among Nations 2021, hosted by Sarwar Kashmeri on PolarisLive, October 3, 2022
* University of British Columbia, presentation on "China's Arrival - Globalization and Global Governance", Department of Political Science, course instructed by the Honourable Sergio Marchi on "Globalization and the Challenges of Global Governance", September 26, 2022
* University of Manitoba, Inaugural Tony T.K. Lau Lecture on Contemporary China, Winnipeg, September 22, 2022
* University of Toronto, presentation of paper, "Canada's Relations with China during the Chrétien Years", Conference on "Chrétien's World: Canadian Foreign Policy, 1993-2003", hosted by The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto, September 9, 2022
* Dartmouth College, Lecture on "The United States and China in a New World Order", Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, May 16, 2022
* Global Affairs Canada, Excellence Hour, discussion with Canadian Consul General in Hong Kong and Gregory Chin on "Hong Kong's future as an International Financial Center", May 5, 2022
* United States Institute of Peace, Expert discussion on "China and Global Conflict Prevention Norms", USIP, Washington DC, April 25, 2022
* Johns Hopkins University, “Diplomatic Capacity Index Expert Roundtable”, Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, April 5, 2022
* The Evolution of the New Development Bank e-workshop, for the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project, March 23-24, 2022
* Goethe University Frankfurt, "Europe's Unique Role in Renminbi Internationalization", Graduate Program in Modern East Asian Studies, Economic Aspects, Germany, February 8, 2022
* University of Toronto, discussant for the book talk of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia, by David Lampton, Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik, The Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, January 20, 2022
* Interview with Sarwar A. Kashmeri, Host for Polaris-Live: US and China in the World, November 24, 2021
* Kyoto Peace Conference 2021, panel presentation on the "The Unintended Consequences of US Financial Warfare on China and Hong Kong", hosted by International Peace and Sustainability Organization, panel sponsored by Torino World Affairs Institute and IPSO, Kyoto, Japan, October 30, 2021
* Boston University, discussant for Paulo Nogueira Batista Júnior book talk, The BRICS and the Financing Mechanisms They Created, hosted by BU Global Development Policy Center and the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston, USA, October 28, 2021
* Carleton University, "Canada-China Relations amid the U.S.-China Trade War", workshop for Canada Among Nations 2021, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa, October 16, 2021
* University of Toronto and Charhar Institute (Beijing), "Canada-China Forum", June 28, 2021
* Università di Torino, "Chinese Development Finance" and "Renminbi Internationalization and the Belt and Road", TOChina Summer School, Italy, June 21, 2021
* Brown University, Workshop on "Economic Warfare: What Can World War One Tell Us About 21st Century Conflicts?", Brown University, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, and The US Naval War College, April-May 2021
* Università di Torino, "Summitry and Corporate-Government Relations for the Belt and Road", TOChina Spring Seminar (webinar), Italy, April 7, 2021
* Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Global Studies Program, webinar presentation on "Bridging Western and Chinese Civilizations for Global Governance", March 1, 2021
* Brown University, "Central Banking in China: The PBOC in Comparative and International Perspective", webinar presentation to the Politics of Central Banking Working Group, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, January 29, 2021
* Canadian International Council, virtual panel on "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in the Asia-Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada" (with Senator Yuen Pau Woo and Ambassador Bruce Jutzi), CIC National Capital Branch, Ottawa, December 16, 2020
* Digital Yuan and RMB Internationalization Along the Belt and Road", webinar presentation to the South-South and Triangular Cooperation among Maritime-Continental Silk Road Cities for Sustainable Development Project, UNOSSC Cities Project, November 13, 2020 (Beijing time zone)
* Global Affairs Canada, Excellence Hour, discussion with Canadian Ambassador Dominic Barton and Gregory Chin on "A Proposal for a Bold Rethink of Canada's Approach to China", September 4, 2020 (Beijing time zone)
* Center for Global Development (Washington DC), Expert panel member for "AIIB: The Next Five Years", Conversation with Sir Danny Alexander, AIIB Vice President, moderated by Scott Morris, Senior Fellow, CGD, July 9, 2020
* Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Moderator and discussant for webinar presentation by former IMF First Deputy Managing Director, Dr. John Lipsky on "Economic Prospects and Global Policy Collaboration in a Time of the COVID 19 Crisis", April 30, 2020
* ISA Presidential Panel, Sapphire Series, "Institutional Diversity and Regional Orders", and Roundtable on "Diversity in the Global Currency System: Good, Bad or Inevitable?", ISA Annual Conference, Hawaii, USA, March 2020 (cancelled due to COVID 19)
* University of Southern California, "Transnational Lineages of the Developmental State" workshop, USC, Los Angeles, USA, February 28, 2020
* Finance Canada and Global Affairs Canada, Presentation on "Reading the Tea Leaves of China in 2020: Political Dimensions", The China Roundtable, Ottawa, January 23, 2020
* Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies, presentation on "The AIIB: New Multilateralism for the Emerging World Order", Boston, November 4, 2019
* Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin, Germany, September 19, 2019
* Invited Presenter, German Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin, Germany, September 18, 2019
* Speaker on Panel at Harvard University Professor Ezra Vogel's Keynote Address, York University, Toronto, September 13, 2019
* European University Institute, "China's Financial Diplomacy: Recent Trends, Forthcoming Challenges" and "Envisioning China's Global Future Scenarios", Fiesole, Italy, July 8-10, 2019
* Presentation of Report for IDRC on "China's Evolving Support for Scientific and Development Research in Developing Countries", IDRC Headquarters, Ottawa, June 14, 2019
* University of Ottawa and Carleton University, Presentation on "Clarifying Canada's Strategic Choices: Canada-US/China Relations", Conference on Canada-China Relations in Crisis, Ottawa, June 13, 2019
* Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, FPI Fellows Lecture, Washington DC, April 11, 2019
* ISA Distinguished Scholar Panel (in honour of Andrew F. Cooper), Toronto, Canada, March 28, 2019
* Invited Speaker, Thomas Shoyama Annual Lecture, Department of Finance Canada, Ottawa, December 11, 2018 (Keynote Presentation by Lord Jim O'Neill, Chair of Chatham House)
* University of California San Diego, Workshop on Summit Diplomacy in Asia: Political and Economic Tracks, School of Global Policy and Strategy, USA, October 19, 2018 (Essay published in Global Asia)
* European University Institute, "China's Financial Diplomacy" and "The Future of the New Development Bank", EUI, Academy of Global Governance, Florence, Italy, October 4-6, 2018
* South African Institute of International Affairs and the National Treasury of South Africa, "Pre-BRICS Summit Meeting on the BRICS and Africa", Johannesburg/Sandton, South Africa, July 24, 2018
* Balsillie School of International Affairs, discussant on Comparing the Modalities of the NDB and the AIIB, Waterloo, July 16, 2018
* Department of Finance, Government of Canada, "Canada-China Relations: Lessons from the Strange Tale of the Renminbi and the SDR", Ottawa, March 7, 2018
* Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, "Think Forum - The Future of Global Governance", Washington DC, September 28, 2017
* Boston University, Pardee School, "Beyond Betton Woods" workshop, Boston, September 15, 2017
* International Studies Association, International Conference, Hong Kong, June 2017
* The University of British Columbia, "Making an International Currency: Renminbi Internationalization", April 27, 2017
* Princeton University, PIIRS Research Community on Empires and the Princeton-Harvard China & the World Program, Panel on "China's Expansionism - New Informal Empire?, April 17, 2017
* ISA Presidential Theme Panel on "Making Change Peaceful: Exploring Mechanisms", Baltimore, February 2017
* Export Development Canada and Conference Board of Canada, "Canada's Renminbi Hub", Ottawa, November 2, 2016
* Department of Finance, Government of Canada, "Green Finance: China as Global Financial Innovator", Ottawa, October 31, 2016
* Carleton University, SSHRC-funded Workshop on "Canada and China in the Pacific Century", Ottawa, October 28, 2016
* University of California Berkeley, "Shaping a New Political-Economic Order in the Asia-Pacific", October 21, 2016
* Boston University, UNCTAD-GEGI Workshop on Development Finance Institutions of the South, October 12, 2016
* New Development Bank (NDB), Shanghai, May 31, 2016
* Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), Shanghai, May 30, 2016
* Shanghai Forum, hosted at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 29, 2016
* The Tobin Project, "Reassessing Threat Assessment", Washington, DC, May 2016
* Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies, "China's Rising Economic Statecraft - Development Finance in Perspective", April 1, 2016
* Global Affairs Canada, "China in Africa", Ottawa, November 5, 2015
* Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Foreign Policy Institute, Washington, DC, October 16, 2015
* Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 6, 2015
* Danmarks Nationalbank, "Chinese Monetary Policy and Internationalization of the Renminbi", Copenhagen, Denmark, October 5, 2015
* University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, 3rd Annual Conference, Philadelphia, USA, April 31-May 1, 2015
* ISA Opening Presidential Panel, FLASCO-ISA Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2014
* ISA Presidential Panel in Honour of Benjamin J. Cohen, Argentina, July 2014
* Cornell University, Presentation on The Political Economy of Renminbi Internationalization, February 2014
* Brown University, Presentation on China as a Foreign Aid Giver, November 2013
* Peking University, School of International Studies, and UNU-WIDER, Workshop on Transational Policy Networks, Asia and Europe, September 2012
* University of Southern California, "Presentation on Trans-Pacific Options for Global Rebalancing", April 2011
* University of Cambridge, Presentation on "Regionalization of the Renminbi", May 2010
* Princeton University, Workshop on Rising States, Rising Institutions, August 2008
* Testimony on Canada-China Political Relations before the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee of the Parliament of Canada, Ottawa, May 2008
* University of the West Indies, Inaugural Chinese New Year Lecture, "In the Shadow of Great Power Rivalry: The Global Rise of China in the Caribbean", UWI Institute of International Relations, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad, February 2008
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
Contributing author for the Project, "Chrétien's World", on Canada's foreign policy during the period of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, 1993-2003.
Description:The Project is led and organized by the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, and supported by Global Affairs Canada.
Project Type: FundedStart Date:
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The Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project is a collaborative research initiative led by Gregory Chin at York University (Canada) and Eva-Maria Nag at Global Policy journal, Durham University, as the principal partners, and The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Foreign Policy Institute as a legacy partner. The EGG project profiles new evidence-based research and analysis of distinguished thinkers and practitioners on emerging issues, actors and arrangements in global governance.
Description:The goal of the EGG Project is to bridge the ongoing gap in knowledge-sharing between the scholarly and policy communities. The Project brings together leading scholars, early-career scholars, and policy practitioners to profile leading-edge research on key emerging issues and emerging actors in global governance, global collective action, global public goods provision, and global risk management across the range of relevant sectors and issue-areas, including global economy and development; the biosphere, environment, and climate change; global security; global health; digitalization, artificial intelligence, big data; global indigenous rights; international migration.
Project Type: FundedStart Date:
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Research and Book Project
Description:The field research, writing and publishing has been ongoing since 2009. Chin is currently completing a book manuscript on the political economy of the internationalization of China's currency, Renminbi. The Project publications, to date, include:
G.T. Chin, "Cat's Out of the Bag: China's Currency Challenge", July 2009
G.T. Chin and Wang Yong, "China Debates: The Dollar System and Beyond", in Chatham House Report, Beyond the Dollar: Rethinking the International Monetary System (2010)
G.T. Chin and Wang Yong, "Debating the International Currency System: What's in a Speech", China Security, 6(1), 2010, pp.3-20
G.T. Chin, "RMB Internationalization: Singapore Style", July 2012
G.T. Chin, "Off to the RMB Races: The Singapore Stock Exchange", July 2012
G.T. Chin, "Globalizing the RMB", Asian Development Bank - Asia Pathways, July 2014
G.T. Chin, "China's Rising Monetary Power", in E. Helleiner and J. Kirshner (eds.), The Great Wall of Money (Cornell University Press, 2014)
G.T. Chin, "True Revisionist: China and the Global Monetary System", in J. deLisle and A. Goldstein (eds.), China's Global Engagement (Brookings Institution Press, 2016)
G.T. Chin, LSE Public Lecture: "China's Global Rise: The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency", November 15, 2022.
Project Type: FundedStart Date:
- Month: Jan Year: 2009
All Publications
"Geopolitics and Hong Kong as International Financial Centre: A Dynamic IPE Perspective" in Tai-Lok Lui, Ingyu Oh and Chris Rowley (eds.), Hong Kong as a Global Business and Financial Hub: Navigating the Turbulence and Challenges (Routledge, 2024).
"China and the United Nations Secretariat: A Mutual Infuencing Game", in Kendall Stiles and Joel Oestreich (eds.), Global Institutions in a Time of Power Transition: Governing Turbulence (Edward Elgar, The ACUNS Series on the UN System, 2023).
"Canada Amid the US-China Trade War: What Happened to the Canada-China FTA?", in Canada Among Nations 2021: Canada and Great Power Competition (Palgrave/Springer, 2022).
"Infrastructure at the G20", in Jan Wouters and Dries Lesage (eds.), The G20, Development and the UN Agenda 2030 (Routledge, 2022) (coauthored with Zhu Jiejin)
"Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Governance Innovation and Prospects", in Kurt Mills and Kendall Stiles (eds.), Understanding Global Cooperation: Twenty-Five Years of Research on Global Governance (Brill, 2021).
"The Evolution of Government-MNC Relations in China", in Zhang Xiaoke and Zhu Tianbiao (eds.), Business, Government and Economic Institutions in China (Springer, 2018)
"True Revisionist: China and the Global Monetary System", in Jacques deLisle and Avery Goldstein (eds.), China's Global Engagement: Cooperation, Conflict, and Influence in the 21st Century (Brookings Institution Press, 2017).
"The State of the Art: Trends in the Study of the BRICS and Multilateral Organizations", in Dries Lesage and Thijs Van de Graff (eds.) Rising Powers and Multilateral Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
"The World Bank and China: The Long Decade of Realignment", in Carla Freeman (ed.), Research Handbook on China and Developing Countries (Edward Elgar, 2015).
"China's Rising Monetary Power", in Eric Helleiner and Jonathan Kirshner (eds.), The Great Wall of Money: Power and Politics in China's International Monetary Relations (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014)
"Asian Regionalism after the Global Financial Crisis", in Giovanni Capannelli and Masahiro Kawai (eds.), The Political Economy of Asian Regionalism (New York & London: Springer/Series of the Asian Development Bank, 2014).
"Consultative Forums: State Power and Multilateral Institutions", in B. Currie-Adler, R. Kanbur, D. Malone and R. Medhora (eds.), International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). (coauthored with Jorge Heine)
"The Economic Diplomacy of the Rising Powers", in A. Cooper, J. Heine and R. Thakur (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
"China's Rising Institutional Influence", in A. Alexandroff and A. Cooper (eds.), Rising States, Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance. (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010)
"Mediating Financial Instability: China, the BRICs and Continuing Rise", in Paolo Savona, John Kirton and Chiara Oldani (eds.) Global Financial Crisis: Global Impact and Solutions (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011).
"Reforming the WTO: China, The Doha Round, and Beyond", in Amrita Narlikar and Brendan Vickers (eds.), Leadership and Change in the Multilateral Trading System (Leiden: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff Academic Publishers, 2009).
"China's G8 Engagement: Complex Interests and Multiple Identity in Global Governance" in Andrew F. Cooper and Agata Antkiewicz (eds.), Emerging Powers in Global Governance: Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2008). Chinese translation published by Shanghai People's Publishing House and Shanghai International Studies University.
"Toward a China Model? : The Sequencing of China's Governance Reforms and Internationalization", in Huang Ping and Cui Zhiyuan (eds.), China and Globalization: Washington Consensus, Beijing Consensus or What? (Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2006)
“The Politics of China’s Western Development Initiative”, in Lu Ding and William A.W. Neilson (eds.) China’s West Region Development: Domestic Strategies and Global Implications (Singapore: World Scientific Press, 2004).
The Political Economy of Renminbi Internationalization (in process)
JOURNAL SPECIAL SECTION (Guest Editor)
"The Evolution of the BRICS-led New Development Bank", Global Policy, forthcoming 2023
JOURNAL SPECIAL SECTION (Guest Editor)
"The AIIB in Global Perspective: Early Development, Innovation, and Future Agendas", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019. (co-edited with Giuseppe Gabusi, Carla M. Freeman and Giovanni Andornino)
International Political Economy in China: The Global Conversation. Routledge, 2015 (co-edited with Margaret M. Pearson and Wang Yong)
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE (Guest Editor)
"International Political Economy in China", Review of International Political Economy, 20(6), 2013 (co-edited with Margaret Pearson)
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE (Guest Editor)
"Rising States, Rising Donors - BRICS and Beyond", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012
China’s Automotive Modernization: The Party-State and Multinational Corporations. Palgrave Macmillan, International Political Economy Series, 2010.
"Geopolitics and Hong Kong as International Financial Centre: A Dynamic IPE Perspective", in Asia Pacific Business Review, special issue on, "After the Storm: Hong Kong as a Global Business Hub in the Asia-Pacific", 28(5), 2022
"US Financial Statecraft on China and Hong Kong: Unintended Consequences across the Asia Pacific", in Asia Prospects: Drivers of Global Change, The University of Turin and Torino World Affairs Institute, July 2021, pp.10-17.
"US-China Relations and Remaking Global Governance: From Stalemate and Progress to Crisis to Resolutions", Asian Perspective, 45(1), Winter 2021, pp. 91-109.
"Coordinated Credit Spaces: The Globalization of Chinese Development Finance", Development & Change , 50(1), January 2019 (co-authored with Kevin P. Gallagher)
"The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - New Multilateralism: Early Development, Innovation and Future Agendas", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019, pp.569-581.
"The AIIB and Sustainable Infrastructure: A Hybrid Layered Approach", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019, pp.593-603. (coauthored with Karin Costa Vazquez)
"An Uncomfortable Truth: Canada's Wary Ambivalence to Chinese Corporate Takeovers", International Journal, 73(3), September 2018, pp.399-428.
"Brazil in Regional and Global Governance: Foreign Policy, Leadership, and UNASUR", International Organisations Research Journal, 11(2), 2016, pp.71-96. (coauthored with Ismael Diaz)
"Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Governance Innovation and Prospects", Global Governance, 22(1), 2016, pp.11-26.
"China's Presidency of the G20 Hangzhou: On Global Leadership and Strategy", Global Summitry, 2016 (coauthored with Hugo Dobson)
"What is Next?... for World Order and Global Governance", Global Policy, November 2016 (coauthored with Carla Freeman)
"China's Bold Economic Statecraft", Current History, 114(773), September 2015
"The BRICS-Led Development Bank: Purpose and Politics Beyond the G20", Global Policy, 5(3), September 2014.
"Creating Space for China's Rise: Reshaping the Bretton Woods System" [Chinese], Fudan (University) International Studies Review (published by Shanghai People's Publishing House), Volume 13, 2013. ISBN 978-7-208-11954-3/D·2406 (coauthored with Karl Yan)
Special Issue on International System Change and New Great Power Relations (edited by Zhang Jianxin).
"Turning Point: International Money and Finance in Chinese IPE", Review of International Political Economy, 20(6), December 2013. (coauthored with Wang Xin)
"Introduction: IPE with China's Characteristics", Review of International Political Economy, 20(6), December 2013. (coauthored with Margaret Pearson and Wang Yong)
"Understanding Currency Policy and Central Banking in China", The Journal of Asian Studies, 72(3), August 2013.
"China as a 'Net Donor': Tracking Dollars and Sense", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012.
"Introduction: Rising States, Rising Donors and the Global Aid Regime", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012 (coauthored with Fahimul Quadir)
"Two-Way Socialization: China, the World Bank and Hegemonic Weakening", The Brown Journal of World Affairs, 19(1), Fall-Winter 2012, pp.211-230.
"Between Innovation and Preservation: Remaking China's Leadership Training System", The China Quarterly, 205, March 2011.
"China, Regional Institution-Building and the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area", Review of International Political Economy, 18(3), August 2011. (coauthored with Richard Stubbs)
"Realigning Global Governance: Regionalism in China's Financial Rise", Harvard Asia Quarterly, May 2011.
"Emerging Donors in International Development Assistance: The Case of China", International Organizations Research Journal [Russian, translated by Y. Zaytsev, ed. by V. Nagornov], 5(2), November 2010, pp.142-58 (with B. M. Frolic)
"Debating the International Currency System", China Security 6:1, 2010 (coauthored with Wang Yong).
"Remaking the Architecture: The Emerging Powers, Self-Insuring and Regional Insulation", International Affairs 86(3), May 2010.
"The Emerging Countries and China in the G20: Reshaping Global Economic Governance", Studia Diplomatica (The Brussels Journal of International Relations), 63(2), November 2010, pp.105-123.
"Will China Change the Rules of Global Order?", The Washington Quarterly, October 2010 (coauthored with Ramesh Thakur).
"Emerging Powers and Africa: Implications for/from Global Governance", Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 36(1), April 2009. (coauthored with Timothy Shaw and Andrew Cooper)
"Shifting Purpose: Asia's Economic Rise and Canada's Foreign Aid Response", International Journal 64(4) Autumn 2009.
China as a Creditor: A Rising Financial Power?", Journal of International Affairs (Columbia University), 62(1), Fall 2008, pp.87-102 (coauthored with Eric Helleiner).
“China's Rural Land Reforms and Its Impacts” (Chinese), Academia: Special Issue on Rural Affairs and Development (published by People’s University Press), 1(1), 2006.
“Securing a Rural Land Market: The Determinants of Institutional Change in China’s Agriculture Sector”, Asian Perspective 29(4), 2005, pp.209-244.
"China and the Developmental State: The International Transmission of the Idea (or Ideas)", conference paper at, "Transnational Lineages of the Development State", University of Southern California, USA, February 2020.
"Renminbi internationalization, China's distinct policymaking: From local experimentation to international diffusion", presented at ISA, New Orleans, March 2015
"The State of the Art on rising powers and multilateral reform" (keynote), the 6th Annual WIRE (Workshop on International Relations), September 2013, cohosted by Ghent University, Free University of Brussels, and University Saint-Louis Brussels
"Conceptualizing China's rising international monetary power", workshop on the Politics of China's International Monetary Relations, 17 November 2012, Cornell University
"Transnational policy networks in Asia: The case of AMRO", workshop of the UNU-CRIS on Transnational Policy Networks, Asia and Europe, September 2012, Peking University
"Global financial rebalancing: Trans-Pacific options", conference on "Redefining the Pacific", 8 April 2011, University of Southern California
"China and global governance", 7th US-EU Dialogue on China, Paris, France, November 2011, co-hosted by Asia Centre at Science Po and the China Policy Program of the Sigur Center at George Washington University
"China and international monetary reform", conference on Global Governance Reform, October 2011, hosted by the Center of Global Governance at Renmin University China, Beijing
"China's Party-led financial supervision", workshop on the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party, March 2010, Boston University
"China watching: exceptionalism and dual status in global development", Beijing Forum 2010: Collection of Papers, November 2010
"China as a rising financial power", workshop on Rising Powers, 26 August 2008, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at Princeton University
"Internationalizing the Chinese Communist Party", workshop on Globalization and the State, 20 May 2008, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
“The AIIB: Rapid Response and Flexibility, Containing COVID-19”, University of Turin, Torino World Affairs Institute (Twai), T.note Number 84, June 2020.
"Tangled Ties: RCEP, TPP and the US-China Trade War", in Global Asia, 13(4), December 2018
"China's Challenge in Africa", YaleGlobal Yale University, The MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies, July 2014
(Reposted on the Future of Learning Institute, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Learning Hub)
"Why the People's Bank of China is Stronger than You Think", East Asia Forum (East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Australia National University), November 2013
"Currency Internationalization in Asia", East Asia Forum (East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Australia), January 2013. Republished in Chinese, in Global Studies Journal (published by The Global Studies Institute, Hong Kong), Issue 10, 2013.
"Assessing China's Global Impact - Implications for Canada & Response Options", (Government of Canada, March 2012)
"Managing Aid Transition: Exit Strategy, Graduation or Status Quo", Au Courant (Canadian International Development Agency, Policy Research Division), Issue 4, September 2012
"Responding to the Global Financial Crisis: The Evolution of Asian Regionalism and Economic Globalization", ADBI Working Paper No.343, published by Asian Development Bank Institute, January 2012
"The Impact of the Rising Powers on Global Economic Governance" (Spanish), Anuario Asia-Pacifico [Asia Pacific Yearbook] 2010-2011 Edition, published by Real Instituto Elcano, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs & Casa Asia (Spain).
"China Debates the Dollar System and Beyond", in Beyond the Dollar: Rethinking the International Dollar System, Chatham House Report, March 2010. (coauthored with Wang Yong)
"Calling China's Bluff", in foreignpolicy.com, January 2009 (coauthored with Eric Helleiner)
"Globalizing the RMB?: Beijing Appoints Three New Clearing Banks in London, Frankfurt and Seoul", Asia Pathways - Asian Development Bank Institute, 29 July 2014.
"Synthesis Report: The Security Dimensions of an Influential China", (Government of Canada, March 2013)
"How Cohesive are the BRICS?", Centre Asia Memo (report on debate with Gregory Chin), Paris, 10 April 2012 (by David Peneau, published in French and English).
"Emerging Donors in International Development Assistance: The China Case", IDRC Research Report, International Development Research Center, December 2007 (with B. Michael Frolic)
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2024 | GS/POLS6625 3.0 | M | The Political Economy of the BRICS | SEMR |
| Winter 2024 | AP/POLS4595 3.0 | N | Asia in the New Global Order | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2023 | GS/POLS6410 6.0 | A | The Study Of Comparative Politics | SEMR |
