Yanmei Xie

Yanmei Xie is the 2026 senior TOY fellow at Asia Society Switzerland, senior adjunct researcher at the RAND China Research Center and senior associate fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies. Previously she was geopolitics analyst at Gavekal Research. Yanmei specializes in China’s political economy, industrial policy and foreign policy, its strategic, technological and industrial competition with the US, trade frictions with Europe, and the impact of rising geopolitical risks on markets, investments, corporate decisions, supply chains and policymaking.