Huang Jing

Huang Jing (; born 1956) is a Chinese-American political scientist and alleged foreign agent. He was the director of the Centre on Asia and Globalisation and the Lee Foundation Professor on US-China Relations at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy until his permanent residence was revoked after the Singaporean Ministry of Home Affairs called him "an agent of influence of a foreign country" on August 4, 2017.

Biography

Early life Huang Jing was born in China in 1956. His parents were military doctors who served in the People's Volunteer Army during the Korean War. While a teenager, he was sent to Yunnan as part of the Down to the Countryside Movement.

Huang graduated from Sichuan University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in English, and he went on to earn a master's degree in history from Fudan University and a PhD from Harvard University in 1995.

Huang is married to Shirley Yang Xiuping (楊秀萍). He also became an analyst for Xinhua News Agency.

Intervention in Singapore diplomatic incident On August 4, 2017, Huang's permanent residence in Singapore was cancelled, and both his wife and himself were permanently denied re-entry, on the assumption that he was "an agent of influence of a foreign country" and "subversion and foreign interference in Singapore's domestic politics" by the Singaporean Ministry of Home Affairs. He was accused by the Ministry of Home Affairs for working for intelligence organizations and agents from an unnamed country to influence Singapore's foreign policy and local public opinion. Huang said he will seek help from lawyer and United States embassy in Singapore. According to The New York Times, "ome view his academic writings as pro-Chinese."

Yeo Jun Wei agent incident

On 25 July 2020, a Singaporean named Dickson Yeo Jun Wei was charged with using his political consultancy in America as a front to collect information for China's intelligence agency. Yeo's PhD supervisor at National University of Singapore had been Huang Jing before he was deported by Singapore. Kausikan claims Huang Jing was the Chinese "agent" who had recruited Yeo to spy for Beijing, Huang respond to Kausikan's remark and told the media that Kausikan's claim were "nonsense" and "unreasonable", as well as demanded Kausikan either prove the comments or retract them.

Publication

Books publication Huang Jing had made several publication of books, including Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics, which won the 2002 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.