Charles Sun is a China Brief Analyst at the Jamestown Foundation, focused on Chinese technology firms, military-civil fusion, export controls, and economic statecraft. He is also a Sinovation Fellow at the Yale School of Management.

He works on how China’s party-state gets private firms to serve the state’s interest without having to compel them, across artificial intelligence, robotics, genomics, and the defense supply chain.

His analysis has appeared in Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, Lawfare, The Diplomat, the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief, The Japan Times, and Stanford’s DigiChina.

He is pursuing a Master of National Security Policy at the RAND School of Public Policy and holds master’s degrees from Stanford University and Columbia University.