Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
WU Riqiang
Professor of international relations at Tsinghua University
Wu Riqiang is Professor of international relations at Tsinghua University.
WU Riqiang is a professor of international relations at Tsinghua University. His research combines political and technical approaches, focusing on nuclear arms control, space security, and emerging technologies.
From 2012 to 2023, Dr. Wu taught at the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China. He worked as a missile engineer at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation from 2000 to 2006. He held visiting fellowships at Harvard University (2018–2019), Dartmouth College (2014–2015), Stanford University (2010–2011), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Fall 2009), and Tsinghua University (2006–2008).
He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Tsinghua University in 2012, and his M.Sc. and B.E. from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2000 and 1998, respectively.
His research has been published in numerous journals, including International Security, Journal of Strategic Studies, Science & Global Security, and Survival, among others.