Her areas of expertise include International Relations, Asia-Pacific Security and China Studies. Her most recent international position was in 2008-09, when she was a residential fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., USA. Her most recent major publication is China and Coexistence: Beijing’s National Security Strategy for the 21st Century, published in December 2011 by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press.