Ryan Wu

Ryan Wu is an Analyst at the Strategic China Policy Group and a Susan Strange Fellow at the Helsinki Geoeconomics Society, specialising in China's geoeconomic strategy, foreign policy, and emerging technology. His analysis has appeared in the Council on Geostrategy, the Jamestown Foundation's China Brief, The Diplomat, and the China Strategic Risks Institute. He has researched the PRC's economic security doctrine at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and worked on UK government policy at the Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT). He holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford.

Publications

Research
Technological Progress in ‘Time War’ With the West
Technological Progress in ‘Time War’ With the West

External Publication

China is weaponising chronopolitics by turning time into an instrument of national power. From BeiDou and the National Time Service Center to the international standards that define the length of a second, precision timekeeping has become a new domain of strategic competition.

Chinese LLMs in the UK Technology Stack
Chinese LLMs in the UK Technology Stack

Written Evidence

With the AI Opportunities Action Plan driving economy-wide AI adoption, low-cost and increasingly competitive Chinese AI models have likely become embedded across the UK’s technology stack. This presents both data security and strategic dependency risks.

Why Europe Needs a New China Lens
Why Europe Needs a New China Lens

Founding Essay

As one of the most consequential strategic actors of our time, China poses increasingly complex challenges across multiple fronts. Europe must develop its own strategic understanding of China.