Charles Sun is a China-focused policy analyst and a Yale Sinovation Fellow at the Yale School of Management. He was previously a Global Affiliate Visiting Fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University (2019–2020). His Stanford research introduced the Proactive Elite Alignment Theory framework for analyzing anticipatory compliance in China's tech sector. His research draws on Chinese-language government records, corporate filings, and procurement documents, informed by a decade of professional experience in Beijing's financial sector. He holds master's degrees from Stanford University and Columbia University. His analysis has appeared in Jamestown Foundation's China Brief and The Diplomat, with forthcoming work in War on the Rocks.
