Dr Claudia Astarita was educated at the University of Bologna and has a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. A non-resident Fellow in the Asia Centre in the University of Melbourne, she is currently based at Sciences Po–Lyon, France. Recent publications include: “A New Frontier of West-China Competition: Academia and international education,” IAI Commentaries, 18|62; “Untangling Northeast Asia’s “Abnormal Equilibrium,” IAI Commentaries, 18|26; “Media,” in Akihiro Ogawa (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia (London: Routledge, 2017).