George Yin

George Yin is a senior fellow at the Center for China Studies, National Taiwan University (NTUCCS). He is also a senior fellow at the Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies (MERICS) and a non-resident fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, where he is building a U.S.–China great-power competition program. 

His research uses data to analyze great-power competition and how it can push states toward sub-optimal strategic choices, with a focus on U.S.–China dynamics and Indo-Pacific relations, particularly as these develop under Trump 2.0. George is additionally an associate-in-research at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a research affiliate with the Oxford Martin AIGovernance Institute (AIGI). 

Since 2023, he has served as a senior advisor to Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), the principal organization managing cross-strait affairs. His writings have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Asian Survey, The National Interest, The Oxford St. Antony Review, The Diplomat, The Washington Post, and War on the Rocks, and he has provided commentary for the BBC, Reuters, The Economist, The Guardian, NPR, ABC, and Le Monde. He edited the Chinese edition of JFK: A Vision for America (2023) and co-edited an Indo-Pacific strategies volume (2024) with Taiwan’s Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun. 

Previously, he was executive director of the Caucus on Strategic and Diplomatic Consensus at Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. He has held academic posts at Swarthmore College and fellowships at Dartmouth, Harvard, and the Tobin Project, and was a visiting scholar at Keio, Waseda, and Trinity College Dublin. 

He holds a PhD from Harvard, an MSc from LSE, and a BA from Swarthmore.