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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.

August 03, 2022
China and NATO’s Strategic Concept
By Mercy A. Kuo

July 25, 2022
China’s Nascent Green Hydrogen Sector
By Mercy A. Kuo

July 18, 2022
Elite Power Struggles After Stalin and Mao
By Mercy A. Kuo

July 11, 2022
China-US Tech Race: Assessing Technological Emergences
By Mercy A. Kuo

July 07, 2022
The China-Iran-Russia Triangle: Alternative World Order?
By Mercy A. Kuo

June 27, 2022
The Biden Administration’s China Strategy
By Mercy A. Kuo

June 21, 2022
Singapore After the Lee Political Dynasty
By Mercy A. Kuo

June 13, 2022
‘War Without Rules’: China’s Long-Term Gambit for Global Power
By Mercy A. Kuo

May 31, 2022
Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea
By Mercy A. Kuo

May 23, 2022
Assessing Singapore’s Next Leader
By Mercy A. Kuo

May 16, 2022
Ukraine War: The Impact on Japan-Russia Relations
By Mercy A. Kuo
