Angela Poh is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She holds a PhD in International Relations. Her research interests include Chinese foreign policy, the intersection of history and international relations, sanctions, and rhetoric in international politics. Her works have appeared in journals such as Asian Security, The Washington Quarterly, and Asia Policy.

"As anxiety over China’s presumed assertiveness continues to surge around the world, Poh’s book thus offers a compelling case that policymakers should explicitly call out Beijing’s hypocrisy when it deploys sanctions. This innovative policy implication, augmented by the book’s conceptual and methodological contributions, render this work a timely and important contribution to our understanding of China’s economic statecraft."- James Reilly, The China Quarterly, Volume 247, September 2021 "[...] Poh’s excellent study shows us that (for the most part) the PRC has up to this point been held back by fetters of its own making." - Todd H. Hall, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 27, Iss. 02

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. The Puzzle of Chinese Sanctions Chapter 2. On Sanctions and China Chapter 3. When Does Talk Become Costly? International Audience Costs and China's Sanctions Behaviour Chapter 4. Stigmatising Sanctions and China's Counter-Stigmatisation Chapter 5. China and United Nations Security Council Sanctions Chapter 6. China's Unilateral Sanctions: Eight Classic Cases Revisited Chapter 7. Demystifying China's Sanctions Behaviour Chapter 8. China's Sanctions Dilemma Appendices Bibliography Index