Huang Jing (academic)
Huang Jing 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Relations at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy until his permanent residence was revoked after the Ministry of Home Affairs called him "an agent of influence of a foreign country" on August 4, 2017.
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.
Personal life
Huang is married to Shirley Yang Xiuping. They are both U.S. citizens, and resided in Singapore. Both of them had their Singapore permanent residence permit cancelled by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and denied re-entry in year 2017.Career
Huang taught at Harvard University from 1993 to 1994. He was an associate professor of political science at Utah State University from 1994 to 2004, where he was also the director of the Asia Studies Program, and he was granted tenure in 1998. He also taught at Shandong University. He was a Shorenstein Fellow at Stanford University from 2002 to 2003, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's John Thornton China Center from 2004 to 2008.In 2008, Huang joined the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, where he was the director of the Centre on Asia and Globalization and the Lee Foundation Professor on US-China Relations. He also became an analyst for Xinhua News Agency. He is the author of several books, including Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics, which won the 2002 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. Since 2019, Huang has been the dean of the Institute of International and Regional Studies at the Beijing Language and Culture University.
Intervention in Singapore diplomatic incident
On August 4, 2017, Huang's permanent residence in Singapore was cancelled, and both his wife and himself were 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 Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs. He was accused by the Ministry of Home Affairs for working for an intelligence organisations and agents from an unnamed country to influence the Singapore's foreign policy and local public opinion.After Huang's permanent resident permit was cancelled, he address to the news media and blindly guess the country which MHA didn't point out who he's working for: "It’s nonsense to identify me as ‘an agent of influence’ for a foreign country. And why didn’t they identify which foreign country they’re referring to? Is it the US or China?". He also told the media he would seek help from his lawyer and the US embassy in Singapore. Huang also refuted on the cancellation of his PR by stating that: "My family and my home are all here. I have property in Singapore, too. How can they treat me like this? If they have evidence, they should take me to court", as well as claiming that he wasn't given a deadline to leave Singapore and have seven days to appeal against the cancellation to Ministry of Home Affairs.
According to The New York Times, "ome view his academic writings as pro-Chinese."
NUS reaction
The National University of Singapore spokesman told the media that the NUS has no tolerance towards foreign interference, and will not be able to allow Huang to continue working at NUS due to his permit cancelled.Yeo Jun Wei agent incident
On July 25, 2020, a Singaporean named Yeo Jun Wei was charged with using his political consultancy in America as a front to collect information for Chinese intelligence. Yeo's PhD supervisor at National University of Singapore had been Huang Jing.Publication
Books publication
Huang Jing had made several publication of books, which includes:| Book title | ISBN | Date of publication |
| Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics | 052103258X, 9780521032582 | 3 July 2000 |
| Inseparable Separation: The Making of China's Taiwan Policy | 9814287369, 9789814287364 | 2010 |
| Autonomy, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching | 1374682861, 9781374682863 | 27 Jan 2017 |