You Ji is professor of international relations and head of Department of Government, University of Macau. He has authored four books, including China’s Military Transformation—Politics and War Preparation (2016); and numerous articles. The most recent among them are "Indian Ocean: A Grand Sino-Indian Game of Go'", In David Brewster (ed.), India and China at Sea: Competition for Naval Dominance in the Indian Ocean, Oxford University Press, 2018; “Sino-U.S. Geostrategic Battle in Asian Maritime Domains”, in Richard Bitzinger and James Char (eds.), Reshaping the Chinese Military: the PLA’s Role and Missions in the Xi Jinping Era, Routledge, 2019; “The Nexus of Land and Sea: The Shaper of Future Indo-Pacific Forces”, Australian Army Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2018; “The Political and Military Nexus of Beijing-Washington-Taipei Interactions in the Taiwan Strait”, The China Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2018; “Sino-US “Cat-and-Mouse” Game Concerning Freedom of Navigation and Overflight”, Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 39, No. 5-6, 2016; “Maintaining an Asian Maritime Order Matters for South China Sea Peace and Stability” in National Institute of Defense Studies (ed.), Maintaining Maritime Order in the Asia-Pacific, Tokyo: National Institute of Defense Studies, 2017; “China’s National Security Council: Evolution, Rationality and Operations”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 25, No. 96, 2016; “Xi Jinping and PLA Centrality in Managing the South China Sea Disputes”, China: International Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2017, “Managing conflicts on Korean Peninsula: a Challenge to China’s national security”, The Bulletin on Korea Studies, Vol. 30, 2017. You Ji is on the editorial board of eight academic journals including The China Journal, Issue and Studies, and Journal of Contemporary China.