Chris Chih-Hua Tseng studies international political economy, global value chains, and political sociology, and he currently conducts comparative research on export controls and the development of emerging technologies. He is a Ph.D. student in sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and he holds an M.A. and B.A. in sociology from National Taiwan University. Previously, he was a summer associate at RAND Corporation and a legislative assistant at the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan.