Debby Chan is a Lecturer at the Australian Centre on China in the World and the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Her research examines societal responses to China’s economic statecraft, with a particular focus on the political and economic challenges facing Belt and Road Initiative projects in Myanmar. She also studies political consumerism as a bottom-up form of resistance to political influence and illiberal trade restrictions. Debby is the author of Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar (ANU Press, 2024). Her research has been published in journals, including The Pacific Review, Third World Quarterly, and Journal of Contemporary Asia.