Alice Politi is a PhD Candidate at the Lau China Institute at King’s College London. Her doctoral research focuses on EU-China relations, with a particular focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Alice has experience cooperating with think-tanks, governments, and research institutes on issues of national and international security, with a focus on China. Her publications have also been featured on Oxford Bibliographies, the Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, the Italian Institute of International Affairs (IAI) and the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), and her work has been cited in several outlets, with appearances on Al Jazeera and other broadcasters.