Brian C. H. Fong

Brian C. H. Fong is an international scholar originally from Hong Kong. He is currently Distinguished Professor in the College of Social Sciences at National Sun Yat-sen University (Taiwan). He also holds adjunct appointments at the National Defense University (USA), Pacific Forum (USA), SOAS University of London (UK), and the University of the Ryukyus (Japan).

Professor Fong has more than 25 years of experience steering cross-sector and transnational collaboration among universities, government agencies, and think tanks across Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Before joining National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan in 2022, he served as Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Policy Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong (2013–2022), Lecturer in the Division of Social Sciences at City University of Hong Kong (2008–2013), and Executive Officer in the Hong Kong Government (2001–2007).

Specialising in great power competition, Professor Fong has published more than 100 scholarly and policy works, including 30 articles in leading SSCI-indexed journals such as International Affairs, Democratization, Nations and Nationalism, The Pacific Review, Journal of Chinese Political Science, and The China Quarterly. He is also the author of the “Great Power Competition Trilogy”, published by Edinburgh University Press: US-China Rivalry: Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific (2024), US-EU-Russia Rivalry: Great Power Competition in the Euro-Atlantic (2026), and China and Russia: Revisionism in the Age of Great Power Competition (forthcoming).