Chien-wu Alex Hsueh（薛健吾） is a professor in the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina in 2015. His expertise lies in international relations, international political economy, and quantitative research design. Currently, he is dedicated to studying China's influence and the responses of other states. His work can be found in International Relations of the Asia-Pacific and many Taiwanese journals such as Issues & Studies, Taiwanese Political Science Review, and Taiwan Democracy Quarterly.