Shaohua YAN associate research fellow at the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University where he also teaches “EU Politics and Foreign Policy” as well as “Sino-European Relations”. Specializing in European foreign policy and China-EU relations, he has published in Energy Policy, Transnational Corporations Review and China International Studies etc. He is currently associate editor for Asia Europe Journal and peer-review expert for Journal of Contemporary European Studies, International Relations and Chinese Journal of International Politics. His comments on international affairs have appeared on South China Morning, China Daily, People’s Daily, CGTN, the Diplomat, EUobserver and Euractiv etc.