Sasha Chhabra is a Taipei-based political and security analyst, writer, and consultant specializing in Taiwan’s foreign and security policy, Chinese influence, and Taiwan-US relations. He chairs the Taiwan International Center, a new initiative that works to strengthen cooperation between Taiwan and fellow democracies, and publishes Formosa Review, an independent newsletter on Taiwanese politics and geopolitics.
At Columbia and LSE, Sasha studied the development of China’s ethnic policies and conceptions of nationalism, writing his dissertation on the early PRC’s policies towards incorporating Tibet into the Chinese state. Prior to entering the dual degree program, he received his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Chicago, and spent several years working in China, where he learnt Mandarin.
His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Nikkei Asia, The Diplomat, the Taipei Times, and CommonWealth Magazine. He also provides commentary to international media, including Fox News, the South China Morning Post, Radio Free Asia, TaiwanPlus, and Radio Taiwan International. He regularly lectures on Taiwan’s security situation, politics, and history at universities in Taiwan and around the world.
In addition to English and Mandarin Chinese, Sasha is proficient in Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, and is conversational in Uyghur.
He can be contacted through his personal website: SashaB.Ch
