How does China think about the world? We spend a lot of time trying to decode Beijing’s behaviour—its strategy, its ambitions, its moves on the global stage. But we rarely ask a more basic question: where does that thinking come from? What does it actually mean to study international relations in China? In this episode, Manoj Kewalramani speaks with Yaqi Li , an MSc candidate in International Relations at RSIS in Singapore. Yaqi, who grew up in China’s Hubei province, is som