Victoria Chonn Ching is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). She has a PhD in Political Science and International Relations, an MA in Economics from the University of Southern California (USC), and an MA in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her work centers on host country agency and the dynamics between foreign and domestic policymaking, using the China-Latin America relationship as her main setting. Her works include A Comparative View of Chinese Relations with Peru (2023) with Alvin Camba, and Conceptualizing China-Latin America Relations in the Twenty-First Century: the Boom, the Bust, and the Aftermath (2018) with Carol Wise. Additional research interests include the relationship between economics and power; the political economy of resource extraction, and the political economy of new security domains (with particular attention to the Global South). Victoria is also a Non-Resident Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center.