Xiaoyu Pu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiaoyu Pu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiaoyu |
| FAMILY NAME | Pu |
| SIGNATURE | PU X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5059-3324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Signaling status through public goods: China, the United States, and the global leadership deficit
Will China replace the United States as the next global leader? Rather than a transfer of leadership from Washington to Beijing, this article argues that the international system is increasingly characterized by a global leadership deficit—a condition in which major powers possess substantial capabilities and provide visible international public goods, yet fail to generate the durable recognition and authority required for system-wide leadership.…
Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition
China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China Is Number One
Forum: The Russia–Ukraine War and Reactions from the Global South
The war between Russia and Ukraine has been a topic of interest for scholars and policymakers worldwide. Western countries have condemned and imposed sanctions on Russia, while countries in the Global South have taken varying positions. In this Forum, we will analyse the origins of the war and the responses to it of key countries in the Global South, including China, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Iran. The war has multiple causes, and identify…
Status Signalling in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Spinning, Military Posturing, and Vaccine Diplomacy
The Indo-Pacific region has emerged as a critical geopolitical platform. Can major powers and regional states avoid conflict? This article explores the concept of status signalling to better understand the region. Status signalling aims to demonstrate a state’s preferred ranking in international society. By applying this concept to new empirical domains, the article shows how status signalling offers fresh insights into regional trends. As an exa…
The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy
In The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy, Suisheng Zhao offers an insightful and perceptive analysis of China's foreign policy transition since the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Centering on the role of transformational leaders and their visions in shaping Chinese foreign policy, Zhao highlights three significant figures: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping. These lea…
(Re)making live-in or live-out choice: The lived experience of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Macao
Migrant domestic workers’ (MDWs) out-of-home flexibility and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic open up opportunities to examine the intrinsic reasons driving their decision-making in live-in/live-out patterns. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 18 female, Filipina MDWs in Macao, the study reveals that live-in MDWs sacrifice their subjectivity to save money, whereas live-out MDWs’ create an empowering space for privacy, romantic relationships…
Censor and Sensitivity: How China Handles US Embassy’s Public Diplomacy in Chinese Cyber Space
The Status Dilemma in World Politics: An Anatomy of the China–India Asymmetrical Rivalry
The role of status in world politics has become an important research topic. This article examines China–India relations through a new framework for status dilemmas. This article, through a careful comparison of the status dilemma with other models of conflict, clarifies the logic and mechanism of status dilemmas in world politics. In particular, it differentiates between the status competition model and the status dilemma model. The status dilem…
Overstretching or Overreaction? China’s Rise in Latin America and the US Response
This article examines how the Chinese elites are interpreting China’s growing presence in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region and the various ways in which the United States is responding to China’s expanding activity in the region. Some of China’s elites caution that China’s international posturing could be overly assertive. Regarding China’s growing role in the LAC, they have made a note of US sensitivities, in addition to China’s cha…
Response to Hoo Tiang Boon’s review of Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order
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Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order
Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order
China plays a variety of status games, sometimes emphasizing its status as an emerging great power and other times highlighting its status as a fragile developing country. The reasons for this are unclear. Drawing on original Chinese sources, social psychological theories, and international relations theories, this book provides a theoretically informed analysis of China’s global rebranding and repositioning in the twenty-first century. Contrary …
Introduction: Can America and China Escape the Thucydides Trap
Everything under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power
Abandoning a low-profile approach in international affairs, China has implemented a more assertive foreign policy during the era of Xi Jinping. Does Beijing have the intention and capabilities to rebuild a Sino-centered world order? Will China become a hegemonic power in Asia as well as in the world? How does the historical past shape China’s foreign policy? Howard W. French, a journalism professor at Columbia University and a former New York Tim…
Rethinking China's rise: Chinese scholars debate strategic overstretch
In recent years, some Chinese elites have started to rethink the strategies and tactics of China's rise on the global stage. Some scholars see the problems in the West as strategic opportunities for China. However, others worry that Beijing might have taken steps too bold and too soon. This article aims to provide an updated analysis of the Chinese scholarly debate of strategic overstretch. Similar to the economics of cost–benefit analysis, strat…
China’s International Leadership: Regional Activism vs. Global Reluctance
Controversial Identity of a Rising China
How a rising power adapts to its new status is an important challenge in international relations. Since the global financial crisis, Chinese scholars have hotly debated China’s international positioning. The ongoing debate reveals a high level of uncertainty about China’s position in the world. While the notion of the ‘revival of the Chinese nation’ implies the clear goal of ‘making China great again’, China’s ultimate place on the global stage i…
Ambivalent accommodation: Status signalling of a rising India and China's response
The parallel rise of India and China is one of the most significant strategic developments in the twenty-first century. While the West has enthusiastically welcomed the rise of India, it has been met with a more ambivalent response from China. India is sending complicated signals about its preferred status on the global stage. Struggling for recognition as a Great Power, India is also trying to maintain solidarity with developing countries. While…
Jessica Chen Weiss, Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations
Hugh White, The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power
Status Signaling, Multiple Audiences, and China’s Blue-Water Naval Ambition
Relations among established and ascending powers tend to be troubled and often violent. According to power transition theory, the onset of war between a dominant and rising power grows more likely as the gap in relative strength between them narrows and as the latter's grievances with the existing order – grievances that expand in lockstep with its mounting capabilities – move beyond any hope of peaceful resolution. Little wonder, then, that risi…
Debating China's Assertiveness
January 01 2014 Debating China's Assertiveness Dingding Chen, Dingding Chen Dingding Chen is Assistant Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Xiaoyu Pu, Xiaoyu Pu Xiaoyu Pu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Alastair Iain Johnston Al…
After Unipolarity: China's Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline
The emerging transition from unipolarity to a more multipolar distribution of global power presents a unique and unappreciated problem that largely explains why, contrary to the expectations of balance of power theory, a counterbalancing reaction to U.S. primacy has not yet taken place. The problem is that, under unipolarity and only unipolarity, balancing is a revisionist, not a status quo, behavior: its purpose is to replace the existing unbala…
Framing Sino-American Relations under Stress: A Reexamination of News Coverage of the 2001 Spy Plane Crisis
Sino-American relations represent a pivotal point in the current balance of global power. This article considers the 2001 spy plane crisis as a revealing episode and considers the framing of media coverage of the crisis in both countries. Of particular interest is the correspondence of news coverage to the divergent regime types and cultural orientations of each state. The findings of the content analysis reinforce the presence of such linkages a…
After Unipolarity: China's Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline
The emerging transition from unipolarity to a more multipolar distribution of global power presents a unique and unappreciated problem that largely explains why, contrary to the expectations of balance of power theory, a counterbalancing reaction to U.S. primacy has not yet taken place. The problem is that, under unipolarity and only unipolarity, balancing is a revisionist, not a status quo, behavior: its purpose is to replace the existing unbala…
Debating China's Assertiveness
January 01 2014 Debating China's Assertiveness Dingding Chen, Dingding Chen Dingding Chen is Assistant Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Xiaoyu Pu, Xiaoyu Pu Xiaoyu Pu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Alastair Iain Johnston Al…
Controversial Identity of a Rising China
How a rising power adapts to its new status is an important challenge in international relations. Since the global financial crisis, Chinese scholars have hotly debated China’s international positioning. The ongoing debate reveals a high level of uncertainty about China’s position in the world. While the notion of the ‘revival of the Chinese nation’ implies the clear goal of ‘making China great again’, China’s ultimate place on the global stage i…
Ambivalent accommodation: Status signalling of a rising India and China's response
The parallel rise of India and China is one of the most significant strategic developments in the twenty-first century. While the West has enthusiastically welcomed the rise of India, it has been met with a more ambivalent response from China. India is sending complicated signals about its preferred status on the global stage. Struggling for recognition as a Great Power, India is also trying to maintain solidarity with developing countries. While…
Rethinking China's rise: Chinese scholars debate strategic overstretch
In recent years, some Chinese elites have started to rethink the strategies and tactics of China's rise on the global stage. Some scholars see the problems in the West as strategic opportunities for China. However, others worry that Beijing might have taken steps too bold and too soon. This article aims to provide an updated analysis of the Chinese scholarly debate of strategic overstretch. Similar to the economics of cost–benefit analysis, strat…
Framing Sino-American Relations under Stress: A Reexamination of News Coverage of the 2001 Spy Plane Crisis
Sino-American relations represent a pivotal point in the current balance of global power. This article considers the 2001 spy plane crisis as a revealing episode and considers the framing of media coverage of the crisis in both countries. Of particular interest is the correspondence of news coverage to the divergent regime types and cultural orientations of each state. The findings of the content analysis reinforce the presence of such linkages a…
Forum: The Russia–Ukraine War and Reactions from the Global South
The war between Russia and Ukraine has been a topic of interest for scholars and policymakers worldwide. Western countries have condemned and imposed sanctions on Russia, while countries in the Global South have taken varying positions. In this Forum, we will analyse the origins of the war and the responses to it of key countries in the Global South, including China, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Iran. The war has multiple causes, and identify…
Everything under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power
Abandoning a low-profile approach in international affairs, China has implemented a more assertive foreign policy during the era of Xi Jinping. Does Beijing have the intention and capabilities to rebuild a Sino-centered world order? Will China become a hegemonic power in Asia as well as in the world? How does the historical past shape China’s foreign policy? Howard W. French, a journalism professor at Columbia University and a former New York Tim…
Status Signalling in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Spinning, Military Posturing, and Vaccine Diplomacy
The Indo-Pacific region has emerged as a critical geopolitical platform. Can major powers and regional states avoid conflict? This article explores the concept of status signalling to better understand the region. Status signalling aims to demonstrate a state’s preferred ranking in international society. By applying this concept to new empirical domains, the article shows how status signalling offers fresh insights into regional trends. As an exa…
Introduction: Can America and China Escape the Thucydides Trap
(Re)making live-in or live-out choice: The lived experience of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Macao
Migrant domestic workers’ (MDWs) out-of-home flexibility and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic open up opportunities to examine the intrinsic reasons driving their decision-making in live-in/live-out patterns. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 18 female, Filipina MDWs in Macao, the study reveals that live-in MDWs sacrifice their subjectivity to save money, whereas live-out MDWs’ create an empowering space for privacy, romantic relationships…
The Status Dilemma in World Politics: An Anatomy of the China–India Asymmetrical Rivalry
The role of status in world politics has become an important research topic. This article examines China–India relations through a new framework for status dilemmas. This article, through a careful comparison of the status dilemma with other models of conflict, clarifies the logic and mechanism of status dilemmas in world politics. In particular, it differentiates between the status competition model and the status dilemma model. The status dilem…
Overstretching or Overreaction? China’s Rise in Latin America and the US Response
This article examines how the Chinese elites are interpreting China’s growing presence in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region and the various ways in which the United States is responding to China’s expanding activity in the region. Some of China’s elites caution that China’s international posturing could be overly assertive. Regarding China’s growing role in the LAC, they have made a note of US sensitivities, in addition to China’s cha…
Framing Sino-American Relations under Stress: A Reexamination of News Coverage of the 2001 Spy Plane Crisis
Sino-American relations represent a pivotal point in the current balance of global power. This article considers the 2001 spy plane crisis as a revealing episode and considers the framing of media coverage of the crisis in both countries. Of particular interest is the correspondence of news coverage to the divergent regime types and cultural orientations of each state. The findings of the content analysis reinforce the presence of such linkages a…
After Unipolarity: China's Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline
The emerging transition from unipolarity to a more multipolar distribution of global power presents a unique and unappreciated problem that largely explains why, contrary to the expectations of balance of power theory, a counterbalancing reaction to U.S. primacy has not yet taken place. The problem is that, under unipolarity and only unipolarity, balancing is a revisionist, not a status quo, behavior: its purpose is to replace the existing unbala…
Status Signaling, Multiple Audiences, and China’s Blue-Water Naval Ambition
Relations among established and ascending powers tend to be troubled and often violent. According to power transition theory, the onset of war between a dominant and rising power grows more likely as the gap in relative strength between them narrows and as the latter's grievances with the existing order – grievances that expand in lockstep with its mounting capabilities – move beyond any hope of peaceful resolution. Little wonder, then, that risi…
Debating China's Assertiveness
January 01 2014 Debating China's Assertiveness Dingding Chen, Dingding Chen Dingding Chen is Assistant Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Xiaoyu Pu, Xiaoyu Pu Xiaoyu Pu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Alastair Iain Johnston Al…
Hugh White, The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power
Jessica Chen Weiss, Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations
China’s International Leadership: Regional Activism vs. Global Reluctance
Controversial Identity of a Rising China
How a rising power adapts to its new status is an important challenge in international relations. Since the global financial crisis, Chinese scholars have hotly debated China’s international positioning. The ongoing debate reveals a high level of uncertainty about China’s position in the world. While the notion of the ‘revival of the Chinese nation’ implies the clear goal of ‘making China great again’, China’s ultimate place on the global stage i…
Ambivalent accommodation: Status signalling of a rising India and China's response
The parallel rise of India and China is one of the most significant strategic developments in the twenty-first century. While the West has enthusiastically welcomed the rise of India, it has been met with a more ambivalent response from China. India is sending complicated signals about its preferred status on the global stage. Struggling for recognition as a Great Power, India is also trying to maintain solidarity with developing countries. While…
Everything under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power
Abandoning a low-profile approach in international affairs, China has implemented a more assertive foreign policy during the era of Xi Jinping. Does Beijing have the intention and capabilities to rebuild a Sino-centered world order? Will China become a hegemonic power in Asia as well as in the world? How does the historical past shape China’s foreign policy? Howard W. French, a journalism professor at Columbia University and a former New York Tim…
Rethinking China's rise: Chinese scholars debate strategic overstretch
In recent years, some Chinese elites have started to rethink the strategies and tactics of China's rise on the global stage. Some scholars see the problems in the West as strategic opportunities for China. However, others worry that Beijing might have taken steps too bold and too soon. This article aims to provide an updated analysis of the Chinese scholarly debate of strategic overstretch. Similar to the economics of cost–benefit analysis, strat…
Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order
Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order
China plays a variety of status games, sometimes emphasizing its status as an emerging great power and other times highlighting its status as a fragile developing country. The reasons for this are unclear. Drawing on original Chinese sources, social psychological theories, and international relations theories, this book provides a theoretically informed analysis of China’s global rebranding and repositioning in the twenty-first century. Contrary …
Introduction: Can America and China Escape the Thucydides Trap
Response to Hoo Tiang Boon’s review of Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Overstretching or Overreaction? China’s Rise in Latin America and the US Response
This article examines how the Chinese elites are interpreting China’s growing presence in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region and the various ways in which the United States is responding to China’s expanding activity in the region. Some of China’s elites caution that China’s international posturing could be overly assertive. Regarding China’s growing role in the LAC, they have made a note of US sensitivities, in addition to China’s cha…
The Status Dilemma in World Politics: An Anatomy of the China–India Asymmetrical Rivalry
The role of status in world politics has become an important research topic. This article examines China–India relations through a new framework for status dilemmas. This article, through a careful comparison of the status dilemma with other models of conflict, clarifies the logic and mechanism of status dilemmas in world politics. In particular, it differentiates between the status competition model and the status dilemma model. The status dilem…
(Re)making live-in or live-out choice: The lived experience of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Macao
Migrant domestic workers’ (MDWs) out-of-home flexibility and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic open up opportunities to examine the intrinsic reasons driving their decision-making in live-in/live-out patterns. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 18 female, Filipina MDWs in Macao, the study reveals that live-in MDWs sacrifice their subjectivity to save money, whereas live-out MDWs’ create an empowering space for privacy, romantic relationships…
Censor and Sensitivity: How China Handles US Embassy’s Public Diplomacy in Chinese Cyber Space
Forum: The Russia–Ukraine War and Reactions from the Global South
The war between Russia and Ukraine has been a topic of interest for scholars and policymakers worldwide. Western countries have condemned and imposed sanctions on Russia, while countries in the Global South have taken varying positions. In this Forum, we will analyse the origins of the war and the responses to it of key countries in the Global South, including China, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Iran. The war has multiple causes, and identify…
Status Signalling in the Indo-Pacific: Strategic Spinning, Military Posturing, and Vaccine Diplomacy
The Indo-Pacific region has emerged as a critical geopolitical platform. Can major powers and regional states avoid conflict? This article explores the concept of status signalling to better understand the region. Status signalling aims to demonstrate a state’s preferred ranking in international society. By applying this concept to new empirical domains, the article shows how status signalling offers fresh insights into regional trends. As an exa…
The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy
In The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy, Suisheng Zhao offers an insightful and perceptive analysis of China's foreign policy transition since the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Centering on the role of transformational leaders and their visions in shaping Chinese foreign policy, Zhao highlights three significant figures: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping. These lea…
Signaling status through public goods: China, the United States, and the global leadership deficit
Will China replace the United States as the next global leader? Rather than a transfer of leadership from Washington to Beijing, this article argues that the international system is increasingly characterized by a global leadership deficit—a condition in which major powers possess substantial capabilities and provide visible international public goods, yet fail to generate the durable recognition and authority required for system-wide leadership.…
Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition
China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China Is Number One
Political science (21 works) · China (20 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (16 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (6 works)