Sun Chenghao is a fellow and head of the U.S.-Europe program at the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS), at Tsinghua University. He is a member of the Munich Young Leaders with the Munich Security Conference, a visiting scholar at Yale Law School (2024), a visiting fellow at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (2025), and a fellow at the Arms Control Negotiation Academy (2025-2026). His research interests include U.S. domestic and foreign policy, China-U.S. relations, transatlantic relations, AI and International security, etc. He teaches a graduate-level course on Transatlantic Relations in the School of Social Sciences at Tsinghua University. Sun has co-authored dozens of reports and books. His latest books are Profound Changes Unseen in a Century and the U.S.-Europe Alliance (2023) and The Gravity of Power in the White House: The National Security Council (1947-2019) (2020). He is the Top 1% Highly Cited Scholar (2024) in China according to the statistics of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI).
Beyond his institutional roles, Sun is a Council Member of the Chinese Association of American Studies, a social media influencer in China on Weibo with around one million followers, and founder of the newsletter ChinAffairs+ which focuses on topics such as China’s foreign policy, China-U.S. relations, China-European relations, and more.
