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Mercy A. Kuo
Mercy Kuo is Executive Vice President at Pamir Consulting.
Mercy A. Kuo is Executive Vice President of Pamir Consulting, a global risk intelligence firm in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. She authors a weekly column on U.S. Asia policy at The Diplomat, an international affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific, and is advisory council member of the Asia-Pacific Institute at the American Jewish Committee and member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Dr. Kuo formerly held executive leadership positions as president and executive director of the Washington State China Relations Council (WSCRC) in Seattle and managing director and director of research at the Committee of 100, a New York-based U.S.-China relations leadership organization. Prior to joining C-100, she was senior project director and director of the Southeast Asia Studies and Strategic Asia Programs at a U.S.-based foreign policy think tank. Dr. Kuo formerly served with the Central Intelligence Agency as an Asian affairs analyst specializing in Northeast and Southeast Asian political, security, and military issues. Her select China and Asia policy publications include “The China Factor in EU-US Relations: Fault Lines and Futures,” Security Policy Library, December 2019 Norwegian Atlantic Committee, “The Geopolitics of Energy in the South China Sea,” World Energy (Eni S.p.a), June 2019; “China’s Strategic Orientation: Assessing Alternative Futures,” China in the 21st Century: History, Security and International Relations, Vol. 3 (Praeger 2014); Strategic Asia 2008-09: Challenges and Choices—What the New President Should Know (NBR 2008); “Defence Policymaking in Strategic Asia” in the “Handbook of Defence Politics” (Routledge 2008); and “Contending with Contradictions: China’s Policy toward Soviet Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Sino-Soviet Split, 1953-1960.” (Lexington Books, 2001). She holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University.
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July 22, 2024
Assessing China-Malaysia Relations
By Mercy A. Kuo
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July 17, 2024
Assessing the NATO Summit and Indo-Pacific Partners
By Mercy A. Kuo
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July 06, 2024
China’s Bid to Lead the World in AI
By Mercy A. Kuo
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July 01, 2024
China’s National Power and Artificial Intelligence
By Mercy A. Kuo
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June 24, 2024
China’s Rise in the Global South
By Mercy A. Kuo
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June 17, 2024
Zelenskyy Calls Out China in Russia’s War on Ukraine
By Mercy A. Kuo
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June 10, 2024
Assessing US Sanctions on China
By Mercy A. Kuo
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June 03, 2024
The China-Russia ‘New Era’ and NATO
By Mercy A. Kuo
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May 29, 2024
Taiwan’s New National Security Leadership
By Mercy A. Kuo
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May 20, 2024
‘The Sentinel State’: China’s Pervasive Surveillance Apparatus
By Mercy A. Kuo
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May 13, 2024
Italy’s Foreign Policy: China and G-7 Leadership
By Mercy A. Kuo
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