"As anxiety over China’s presumed assertiveness continues to surge around the world, Poh’s book thus offers a compelling case that policymakers should explicitly call out Beijing’s hypocrisy when it deploys sanctions. This innovative policy implication, augmented by the book’s conceptual and methodological contributions, render this work a timely and important contribution to our understanding of China’s economic statecraft."
- James Reilly, The China Quarterly, Volume 247, September 2021
"[...] Poh’s excellent study shows us that (for the most part) the PRC has up to this point been held back by fetters of its own making."
- Todd H. Hall, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 27, Iss. 02