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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.

January 20, 2021
Zhang Jian Vs. Jack Ma: CCP Capitalism
By Mercy A. Kuo

January 12, 2021
What Does the EU-China Investment Deal Mean for US-EU Relations?
By Mercy A. Kuo

January 07, 2021
The Brussels Effect and China: Shaping Tech Standards
By Mercy A. Kuo

December 21, 2020
China’s Challenges to Global Democracy
By Mercy A. Kuo

December 14, 2020
Italy’s China Card in EU-US Relations
By Mercy A. Kuo

December 08, 2020
RCEP: The Future of Trade in Asia
By Mercy A. Kuo

December 01, 2020
China and the Middle East: Conflict and Cooperation
By Mercy A. Kuo

November 23, 2020
Malaysia in China’s Belt and Road
By Mercy A. Kuo

November 17, 2020
Thailand Protests at a Tipping Point
By Mercy A. Kuo

November 11, 2020
How Sovereign Investment Funds – Including China’s – Are Reshaping the Global Economy
By Mercy A. Kuo

November 03, 2020
US-China Rivalry: Who Will Prevail?
By Mercy A. Kuo
