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Arnaud Leveau (PhD)

Arnaud Leveau is President of Asia Centre, Founder of Alta Strategies and Associate Professor at Paris Dauphine University.

He has nearly 30 years of experience across the Indo-Pacific, spanning business, government affairs, and research. His career includes positions in leading organisations such as Airbus, Danone, Sciaci Saint Honoré, and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He has held academic and research positions at the Chulalongkorn University, Kyoto University, and Sogang University. He also served as Deputy Director of the French Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia.

Arnaud Leveau holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He is a member of the Asie21 and the author of numerous publications on the Korean Peninsula, Thailand, and Southeast Asia.

His work focuses on strategic and geopolitical dynamics in the Indo-Pacific, with a particular emphasis on defence, security, and international relations.

Autres analyses

Taiwan cooking oil scandal: Why Isn’t Beijing Adding Fuel to the Fire? • Isabelle Feng

31 July 2026 No Comments

In this new piece, Isabelle Feng looks back at the tainted cooking oil scandal that has affected Taiwan for several weeks, and at Beijing’s measured response to the affair. She examines the protests held in Taipei on 25 July, the coverage of the event by Chinese state media, and reactions observed on Chinese social media. She puts this episode in perspective alongside the history of food safety scandals in mainland China and the question of freedom to protest on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

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Mongolia: The Horizon Does Not Choose. From COP17 to the Art of Becoming Indispensable • Arnaud Leveau (PhD)

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Mongolia: The Horizon Does Not Choose. From COP17 to the Art of Becoming Indispensable

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In this analysis, Dr. Arnaud Leveau, President of Asia Centre, examines how Mongolia turned COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, and then the Bishkek meeting with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, into two stages of a single strategy: converting its position between two giants into a regional function.

Executive Summary

In the space of three days, Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh moved from closing a United Nations summit on desertification to meeting Xi Jinping over fuel-supply security. This sequence is no accident of scheduling. It sums up the method by which Ulaanbaatar is converting its position between two giants into a regional function. This analysis examines how Mongolia mobilises environmental diplomacy, sustains its rapprochement with Beijing while watching its dependence on it, adopts a more cautious posture towards Moscow on matters affecting its energy sovereignty, diversifies its partnerships toward Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and France, and cultivates, down to the symbolic register, an autonomy that its size and geography deny it materially. It asks, in the end, what it would take to move from buffer state to hinge state.

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