Gloria Xiong is a 2023–2024 GPEP pre-doctoral fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in the Government department at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the intersection of international political economy and security. Her dissertation examines the drivers and consequences of China’s coercive economic statecraft. She is currently also a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. Prior to Cornell, she received a BA with honor in political science from Mount Holyoke College.