![Dr Jennifer Hsu](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/0I4A4504-LO_RES.jpg)
Jennifer Hsu was a Research Fellow and the Project Director of the Multiculturalism, Identity and Influence Project at the Lowy Institute. She is the lead author of the Lowy Institute’s Being Chinese in Australia: Public Opinion in Chinese Communities survey report.
After completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge in Development Studies, she researched and taught in development studies, political science and sociology in universities in North America and the UK. Jennifer is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Social Policy and Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. Her research expertise broadly covers Chinese state-society relations, Chinese civil society, the internationalisation of Chinese NGOs and the Chinese diaspora and she has published widely in these areas.Jennifer provides regular commentary to Australian and international media outlets including, ABC, BBC, CNN and NHK Japan.
![Protests in China are nothing new, but these are different](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-07/default-commentary-image_0.jpeg?itok=9HMLknn5)
![A symbolic, stabilising step is one thing – but do Australia and China have enough shared interests for progress?](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-07/default-commentary-image_0.jpeg?itok=9HMLknn5)
![As Xi Jinping begins a third term, Australia must push to engage China on common interests](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-07/default-commentary-image_0.jpeg?itok=9HMLknn5)
![China: Xi, the Party, and the endless struggle](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-10/GettyImages-1244007636_0.jpg?itok=4cB8lUVT)
![Conversations: Zhiqun Zhu on Chinese foreign policy ahead of the 20th National Congress of the CCP](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-08/LIC_July%2022%20BG_Draft%201_0.jpg?itok=fn-CsOAe)
![Australia’s responsibility is to see, hear and advocate for the people of Taiwan](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-08/Lowy_DefaultImage_new.jpg?itok=oIU1OsDc)