A leading authority
on the geoeconomics of China —
and the geopolitics it is shaping
The work of understanding China — and what it portends for the rest of us.
Shirley Ze Yu is a distinguished political economist whose work examines China's global ramifications across trade, supply chain, technology, and the multilateral financial architecture. Her writing has appeared in the WSJ, Financial Times, National Interest, Al Majalla, the South China Morning Post, and other leading policy journals. Her rebranded channel, ChinaX (formerly Hey China!), reaches an audience of executives, investors, and policymakers across the emerging economies.
Beyond the page, she advises sovereign clients, investment institutions, and multinational corporations through ACME Macro Advisory — translating long-cycle rational analysis into actionable strategy. She holds faculty or research affiliations with leading institutions in London, the United States, and Europe, and speaks regularly to audiences in Europe, the Gulf, and East Asia.
Her perspectives are historical, her method empirical, her conclusions declarative.
She lectures on China's technology and geopolitics at Business Schools across Europe, has convened the China-Africa Conference at the LSE, and has addressed audiences from Washington DC to Singapore. She works in English and Mandarin, and writes — by preference — from the perspectives of the emerging world.