Publications

This is a list of selected publications by Andy Yee on politics, technology, and Asia.

Book Chapters

• Yee, Andy, and Nikhil Vadgama. “A Hayekian View of Digital Currencies.” Chapter. In Digital Assets: Pricing, Allocation and Regulation, edited by Reena Aggarwal and Paolo Tasca, 104-128. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. (PDF)
• Yee, Andy. “Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of the South China Sea and the East China Sea.” Chapter. In Assessing Maritime Disputes in East Asia: Political and Legal Perspectives, edited by Barthelemy Courmont, Frederic Lasserre and Eric Mottet, 15-36. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2017.

Academic and Policy Journals

East Asia Forum Quarterly

• Innovation integral to China’s techno-industrial transformation, East Asia Forum Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2024, pp.15-19. (PDF)

Global Asia

• Post-Truth Politics and Fake News in Asia, Global Asia, Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2017, pp.66-71. (PDF)
• Digital Asia: An Agenda for Regional Growth and Integration, Global Asia, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 2014, pp.54-58. (PDF)
• For the Internet Age, Taiwan’s ICT Industry Needs a New Model, Global Asia, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 2013, pp.66-73. (PDF)
• When Will Japan Tap Its Internet Potential?, Global Asia, Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2013, pp.80-85. (PDF)
• Debate: Is an Asian Community Really Possible? An Asian Community Will Emerge From Existing Structures, Global Asia, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2009, pp.46-49. (PDF)

Cutter Business Technology Journal

• Asia’s Payments Revolution, Cutter Business Technology Journal, Vol. 29, No. 11, November 2016, pp.29-31. (PDF)

Internet Policy Review

• Internet architecture and the layers principle: a conceptual framework for regulating Bitcoin, Internet Policy Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, August 2014. DOI: 10.14763/2014.3.289 (PDF)

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

• Maritime Territorial Disputes in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis of the South China Sea and the East China Sea, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol. 40, No. 2, July 2011, pp.165-193. (PDF)

Media and Opinion Outlets

General

• The Coming Battle Over Bitcoin Governance, Oxford Business Law Blog, December 21, 2021.
• China Makes Global Media Push, But Skeptics Abound, MediaShift, April 19, 2011.
• The Cold War Origin of Asia’s Troubled Waters, Asia Sentinel, November 24, 2010.
• Sino-Japan relations: The dangers of tit for tat, South China Morning Post, September 30, 2010. (PDF)

Internet Policy Review (author profile)

• Revitalising science with blockchain technology, Internet Policy Review, August 6, 2025.
• Internet and blockchain technologies: authoritarian or democratic?, Internet Policy Review, May 22, 2019.
• The regulation of cryptocurrencies: from disintermediation to reintermediation, Internet Policy Review, January 14, 2015.

AsiaGlobal Online (author profile)

• De-Dollarization in the Age of Blockchain and Digital Currencies, AsiaGlobal Online, May 11, 2023.
• The Metaverse in a Fragmented World, AsiaGlobal Online, September 1, 2022.
• The Geography of Digital Money, AsiaGlobal Online, April 14, 2022.
• Blockchain in China: Tussle Between Control and Openness, AsiaGlobal Online, March 22, 2018.
• Beyond the US-China Race for Geotechnological Supremacy, AsiaGlobal Online, February 1, 2018.

Nikkei Asian Review

• Blockchain can lift Asian trade over gaps in trust, Nikkei Asian Review, July 13, 2017.
• What big data can do for Chinese governance, Nikkei Asian Review, April 5, 2017.
• Asia needs a policy framework to govern AI technology, Nikkei Asian Review, February 15, 2017.
• Japanese companies not yet prepared for next tech wave, Nikkei Asian Review, April 21, 2016. (PDF)
• The need to tame Internet finance in China, Nikkei Asian Review, March 7, 2016.
• Hong Kong, Singapore unlocking their fintech potential, Nikkei Asian Review, November 20, 2015.
• How technology and finance can get along, Nikkei Asian Review, October 13, 2015. (PDF)

East Asia Forum (author profile)

• The twin faces of Japanese nationalism, East Asia Forum, September 25, 2013.
• Technology and culture to drive East Asia’s next digital revolution, East Asia Forum, May 9, 2012.
• International cyber war: limits and possibilities, East Asia Forum, March 14, 2012.
• US deployment of littoral combat ships to Singapore, East Asia Forum, July 21, 2011.
• Autocratic peace and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, East Asia Forum, May 11, 2011.

openDemocracy (author profile)

• Content creation in the age of the mobile internet, openDemocracy, May 30, 2014.
• The internet and Tolstoy’s vision of history, openDemocracy, November 7, 2012.
• Revolt of the meritocrats, openDemocracy, January 3, 2012.
• Where does the west stand on global freedom of expression?, openDemocracy, March 14, 2011.
• China rising: what would Mackinder do?, openDemocracy, August 6, 2010.
• A brave new world?, openDemocracy, January 5, 2010.

Global Voices Online (author profile)

• How Social Commerce Tightens China’s Grip on the Internet, Global Voices Online, May 22, 2013.
• Taiwan: Democracy with a Confucian Face?, Global Voices Online, July 2, 2012.
• Hong Kong Rethinks its Relationship with Mainland China, Global Voices Online, January 24, 2012.
• China: Writing Imaginary Book Reviews, Global Voices Online, May 22, 2011.
• China: Ran Yunfei’s Blogging for Political Change, Global Voices Online, April 9, 2011.
• China: The coming of age of Political Confucianism?, Global Voices Online, February 5, 2011.

ChinaGeeks (author profile)

• The Tea Drinkers’ Guide, ChinaGeeks, May 10, 2012.
• What Lu Xun can teach us about modern-day China, ChinaGeeks, October 2, 2011.
• Mo Zhixu on the Crackdown of the Southern Media Group, ChinaGeeks, February 18, 2011.
• Stability Preservation in China, ChinaGeeks, April 10, 2010.

Interviews, Features and Quotations

• Stan Higgins, Google Analyst: Bitcoin Could Be ‘The Internet of Money’, CoinDesk, September 3, 2014.
• Alan Wheatley, Asian Style, Finance & Development (IMF), June 2014, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp.14-17.
• Tania Branigan, Ai Weiwei hits out at treatment of friends and activists, The Guardian, August 9, 2011.
• VPRO, What does China think?, interview with Tegenlicht, March 25, 2011.
• Dave Itzkoff, China Sees ‘Avatar’ (and Criticizes It, Too), The New York Times, January 11, 2010.