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Prof Huang Jing: An expert on China affairs

SINGAPORE — Professor Huang Jing who, along with his wife, got their permanent residence (PR) status revoked on Friday (Aug 4), is an expert on Chinese elite politics, China’s development strategy, foreign policy, and military, as well as US-China relations, according to a description on Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s (LKYSPP) website.

Prior to Friday's MHA statement, Huang Jing was being investigated by LKYSPP for alleged inappropriate relationship with a research assistant. Photo: Screen capture from YouTube

Prior to Friday's MHA statement, Huang Jing was being investigated by LKYSPP for alleged inappropriate relationship with a research assistant. Photo: Screen capture from YouTube

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SINGAPORE — Professor Huang Jing who, along with his wife, got their permanent residence (PR) status revoked on Friday (Aug 4), is an expert on Chinese elite politics, China’s development strategy, foreign policy, and military, as well as US-China relations, according to a description on Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s (LKYSPP) website.

The site also mentioned that Prof Huang was appointed a Prestigious International Scholar by China’s Shanghai Municipal Government.

In statement on Friday, the Ministry of Home Affairs identified Prof Huang, a United States citizen, as an “agent of influence of a foreign country”, adding that he “knowingly interacted” with intelligence organisations and agents of the foreign country and cooperated with them to influence the Republic’s foreign policy and public opinion here. The ministry did not name the country in question.

Prof Huang held a senior position at the LKYSPP as director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, and the MHA said he used it to “deliberately and covertly advance the agenda of a foreign country at Singapore’s expense”.

The centre he headed was established in 2006 at LKYSPP, National University of Singapore. It was reoriented in 2011 to “undertake in-depth research examining the development of the Asia-Pacific, and its impact on world affairs”, the centre’s website wrote. 

It also said that the centre has developed widespread collaborative networks and relationships with major think tanks in the United States, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Europe, and Russia since 2011, so as to be a platform “for meaningful and constructive exchanges among leading scholars and experts on important issues in world affairs”.

Prof Huang received his Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree from Chinese universities, Sichuan University where he read English and Fudan University where he read History, respectively. He then moved on to get his doctorate degree from Harvard University in the US, studying political science. 

Before joining LKYSPP, Prof Huang was a senior fellow at the John Thornton China Centre at the Brookings Institution from 2004 to 2008, a Shorentein fellow at Stanford University from 2002 to 2003, director of the Asia Studies Programme and associate professor of Political Science from 1994 to 2004 at Utah State University, and lecturer at Harvard University between 2013 and 2014. 

Among the articles that Prof Huang had written on included one titled “PM Lee Hsien Loong’s absence from the Belt and Road Forum does not mean Singapore is against One Belt, One Road”, which was published on a Chinese site called www.CRNTT.com in May this year. Another one titled “What does China need to learn from Singapore”was published in 2014 in the Chinese academic journal, Front of Academic Research.

On August 2016, he was one of four panelists in a discussion titled “In search of solutions for the South China Sea” held at the school, alongside Professor Kishore Mahbubani, who is the dean of LKYSPP.

Prof Huang also co-authored a few articles and books with Prof Mahbubani, including one titled Rising Peacefully Together in 2012, which was published in current affairs magazine Foreign Policy.

Prof Huang has also been contributing to a column in Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore’s Chinese daily newspaper, since 2014, commenting on the impact that world developments, such as Brexit and Paris terror attack, has on China. 

In June this year, he contributed to Global Times, a Chinese state-owned tabloid,  an article titled “The chaos caused by Trump is a challenge to the world”.

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