Policy Writing and Public Commentary
“Space Debris Struck a Chinese Spacecraft—How the Incident Could be a Wake-up Call for International Collaboration,” The Conversation, November 13, 2025.
“The United States Should Act Now to Mitigate Conflict Escalation on the Moon” (with Lawrence
Rubin and Mariel Borowitz), War on the Rocks, July 30, 2025.
“China’s Space Activities: Drivers, Trends, and Progress,” Roundtable article for Asia Policy 19(4), 2024.
“Europe-China Space Collaboration Fails to Launch,” East Asia Forum, March 23, 2023.
“Governing the Final Frontier: Risk Reduction in Outer Space,” (with Naomi Egel), The Washington Quarterly, 45(5), 27-44.
“NASA’s Head Warned That China May Try to Claim the Moon—Two Space Scholars Explain Why That’s Unlikely to Happen,” (with Svetla Ben-Itzhak), The Conversation, July 8, 2022.
“Beijing Issued a White Paper on China’s Space Program: Here’s What’s New,” The Washington Post/Monkey Cage, February 2, 2022.
“Houston, We Might Have a Problem: Russia’s ASAT Test and the Limits of China-Russia Space Cooperation,” Modern War Institute, December 15, 2021.
“Can China’s Commercial Space Sector Achieve Lift off? East Asia Forum, May 5, 2021.
“Communicating Value: Investigating Terminology Challenges in ‘Newspace’ and ‘Commercial Space’” (With Rob Ronci, Ian Christensen, Jose Ocasio-Christian, and Casey Backes) New Space 8(3), 2020.
“China’s Space Program is Driven by a Desire for Prestige, Not Military Might,” World Politics Review, August 20, 2020.
“Is China Catching up to the United States in Space?” The Washington Post/Monkey Cage, April 24, 2019.
“Coping With the Challenge of China’s Growing Space Power,” The Diplomat, January 18, 2019.
"Xi Jinping's New Foreign Policy," The National Bureau of Asian Research, January 25, 2015.
"The Ukraine Crisis and East Asia," in Ed. Tellis et. al, Strategic Asia 2014-2015: U.S. Alliances and Partnerships at the Center of Global Power, The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2014.
"Dim Prospects for the South China Sea," The National Bureau of Asian Research, December 19, 2013.
"Colloquium Brief: The Chinese People's Liberation Army in 2025," U.S. Army War College, The National Bureau of Asian Research, and the U.S. Pacific Command, August 27, 2014.
"China, the ARF, and the South China Sea: Is China Being Socialized?" International Affairs Review, Volume 11(2), 2013.