Dr. Olivia Cheung is a political scientist at SOAS China Institute, University of London. She is author of Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics (2023) and The Political Thought of Xi Jinping (2024, with Steve Tsang). Her news commentaries and research have been featured in mainstream media such as TIME magazine, Five Books, Economist, New Statesman, South China Morning Post, CNN, Wired, and in interviews with BBC, Novara Media, etc.