Zhou Yang is from Weifang, Shandong Province. He currently works at the Institute of Contemporary China and the World of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration. He majors in international politics and his research focuses on American politics and international political economics. He has been a research assistant to teachers at many universities including Nankai University, Tsinghua University, Columbia University and Duke University. He has worked at Aili Think Tank and ByteDance. In CISS Youth, he will focus on the formation and diffusion of Sino-US political relations and cultural exchanges and trade mechanisms.