
Lily McElwee serves as a fellow in the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). At CSIS, she also supports the CSIS-Chumir Global Dialogue, a high-level dialogue project on strategic competition and the future of world order. Her research focuses on global governance, EU-China relations, and transatlantic cooperation on China. She is a DZ Bank fellow on transatlantic business and finance with the American Council on Germany. Her work has appeared in International Affairs, The Diplomat, St Antony’s International Review, and E-International Relations. She holds a DPhil in China studies and an MSc from the University of Oxford and a BA with honors in political science from Stanford University.
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Will Germany Depart from the Merkel Model on China? Beijing Will Have a Say.
Lily McElwee in The Diplomat — June 13, 2022
Chinese Perceptions of America’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Lily McElwee in CSIS Interpret: China — June 13, 2022
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Dire Straits: China’s Push to Secure Its Energy Interests in the Middle East
Digital Report by Matthew P. Funaiole , Brian Hart , and Lily McElwee — February 3, 2023

CCP Inc. in Argentina: China’s International Space Industry Engagement
Report by Samantha Lu , Briana Boland , and Lily McElwee — January 24, 2023

Indo-Pacific Forecast 2023
Event by Victor Cha , Emily Benson , Jude Blanchette , Charles Edel , Matthew P. Goodman , Christopher B. Johnstone , Scott Kennedy , Ellen Kim , and Bonny Lin , Lily McElwee , Erin L. Murphy , Yuko Nakano , Gregory B. Poling , William Alan Reinsch , Nicholas Szechenyi , Raymond Vickery , Kurt Campbell , Ambassador Taeyong Cho , Ambassador Jose Manuel G. Romualdez — January 12, 2023

Unpacking EU-China Relations in 2022: Prospects for the Year Ahead
Event by Lily McElwee , Max Bergmann , Noah Barkin , Mathieu Duchâtel , Liana Fix , and Mikko Huotari — December 8, 2022

Book Event: No Limits: The Inside Story of China's War with the West
Event by Max Bergmann , Lily McElwee , and Andrew Small — November 18, 2022

How Scholz’s Unpopular Trip to Beijing Actually Served U.S. Interests
Commentary by Lily McElwee — November 7, 2022
