Commentary
Policy Writing
“Europe-China Space Collaboration Fails to Launch,” East Asia Forum, March 23, 2023.
“Governing the Final Frontier: Risk Reduction in Outer Space,” (with Naomi Egel), The Washington Quarterly, 45(5), 27-44.
“NASA’s Head Warned That China May Try to Claim the Moon—Two Space Scholars Explain Why That’s Unlikely to Happen,” (with Svetla Ben-Itzhak), The Conversation, July 8, 2022.
“Beijing Issued a White Paper on China’s Space Program: Here’s What’s New,” The Washington Post/Monkey Cage, February 2, 2022.
“Houston, We Might Have a Problem: Russia’s ASAT Test and the Limits of China-Russia Space Cooperation,” Modern War Institute, December 15, 2021.
“Can China’s Commercial Space Sector Achieve Lift off? East Asia Forum, May 5, 2021.
“Communicating Value: Investigating Terminology Challenges in ‘Newspace’ and ‘Commercial Space’” (With Rob Ronci, Ian Christensen, Jose Ocasio-Christian, and Casey Backes) New Space 8(3), 2020.
“China’s Space Program is Driven by a Desire for Prestige, Not Military Might,” World Politics Review, August 20, 2020.
“Is China Catching up to the United States in Space?” The Washington Post/Monkey Cage, April 24, 2019.
“Coping With the Challenge of China’s Growing Space Power,” The Diplomat, January 18, 2019.
"Xi Jinping's New Foreign Policy," The National Bureau of Asian Research, January 25, 2015.
"The Ukraine Crisis and East Asia," in Ed. Tellis et. al, Strategic Asia 2014-2015: U.S. Alliances and Partnerships at the Center of Global Power, The National Bureau of Asian Research, 2014.
"Dim Prospects for the South China Sea," The National Bureau of Asian Research, December 19, 2013.
"Colloquium Brief: The Chinese People's Liberation Army in 2025," U.S. Army War College, The National Bureau of Asian Research, and the U.S. Pacific Command, August 27, 2014.
"China, the ARF, and the South China Sea: Is China Being Socialized?" International Affairs Review, Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 2013.
Media Interviews and Public Engagement
Quoted in Sasa Petricic, “What was China Thinking? The Mystery of its Balloon Motives Raises Tensions with the US,” CBC, February 8, 2023.
Quoted in Meaghan Tobin, “China’s Version of Starlink is Government-Backed And Has Global Ambitions,” Rest of World, January 11, 2023.
Interview with Kate Lamble, BBC Newsnight, August 22, 2022.
Interviewed in Joshua Coe, “Russia to Withdraw from International Space Station,” The World/NPR, July 26, 2022.
Quoted in Katrina Northrop, “The State of Space,” The Wire China, July 10, 2022.
Quoted in Bruce Einhorn, “China, US Are Racing to Make Billions From Mining the Moon’s Minerals,” Bloomberg, May 17, 2022.
Quoted in Xinmei Shen, “To Compete With Elon Musk’s Starlink, China’s Private Space Ventures Must Work With Their State-Owned Competitors,” South China Morning Post, July 4, 2021.
Interview in Mercy A. Kuo, “The Politics of China’s Space Power: Insights from Lincoln Hines,” The Diplomat, June 14, 2021.
Interview with Euronews TV, “China Taikonauts Launch,” June 9, 2021.
Quoted in Shawn Yuan, “Space: The New Frontier of US-China Rivalry,” Al Jazeera, May 13, 2021.
Quoted in Christian Shephard and James Kynge, “China’s Ambitions in Space: National Pride or Taking on the Americans,” Financial Times, May 9, 2021.
Quoted in Neel V. Patel, “Here’s What China Wants from its Next Space Station,” MIT Technology Review, April 30, 2021.
Quoted in Gordon Feller, “China’s Massive Satellite Initiatives: Intrusion into Space Sovereignty,” Australian Defence Magazine, April 30, 2021.
Quoted in Neel V. Patel, “China’s Surging Private Space Industry is out to Challenge the U.S.,” MIT Technology Review, January 21, 2021.
Quoted in Mitsuru Obe and Yifan Yu, “SpaceX success has Asia Startups Dreaming of the Stars,” The Financial Times, July 12, 2020.
Quoted in Eleanor M. Albert, “50 Years of China’s Space Ambitions,” The Diplomat Magazine, April 2020.
Quoted in Abigail Beall, “China’s Private Space Industry is Rapidly Gaining Ground on SpaceX,” Wired.com.uk, August 28, 2019.
Panelist, “U.S.-China Engagement in Space,” Secure World Foundation, March 31, 2019.