Theodor Tudoroiu is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Université de Montréal and an M.A. from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. His China-related books include The Myth of China’s No Strings Attached Development Assistance: A Caribbean Case Study (Lexington Books, 2020), China’s International Socialization of Political Elites in the Belt and Road Initiative (Routledge, 2021), China’s Globalization from Below: Chinese Entrepreneurial Migrants and the Belt and Road Initiative (Routledge, 2022), China in The Global South: Impact and Perceptions (co-edited with Anna Kuteleva, Springer, 2022), and The Geopolitics of the Belt and Road Initiative (Routledge, 2024).