Europe’s Strategic Pivot: CPTPP as a Response to US Trade Tensions
24 July 2025
Simon Xiao is an UWC Davis Scholar at Princeton University’s Politics and East Asian Studies departments. Born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, Simon has also lived in Japan, Taiwan and China. Simon was a New Zealand Youth Member of Parliament in 2022. Simon previously worked in Tokyo-based thinktank Asia-Pacific Initiative and the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan.