| Soft power: China's emerging strategy in international politics G Chen, J Chen, XCX Deng, Y Deng, J Kurlantzick, Z Pang, I Wibowo, ... Lexington Books, 2009 | 394 | 2009 |
| China debates soft power L Mingjiang Chinese Journal of International Politics 2 (2), 287-308, 2008 | 384 | 2008 |
| The Belt and Road Initiative: geo-economics and Indo-Pacific security competition M Li International Affairs 96 (1), 169-187, 2020 | 158 | 2020 |
| Soft power in Chinese discourse: Popularity and prospect M Li S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 2008 | 152 | 2008 |
| A China in transition: The rhetoric and substance of Chinese foreign policy under Xi Jinping A Poh, M Li Asian Security 13 (2), 84-97, 2017 | 122 | 2017 |
| Understanding the dynamics of the Indo-Pacific: US–China strategic competition, regional actors, and beyond K He, M Li International Affairs 96 (1), 1-7, 2020 | 114 | 2020 |
| Rising from within: China's search for a multilateral world and its implications for Sino-US relations M Li Global Governance 17, 331, 2011 | 106 | 2011 |
| Local liberalism: China’s provincial approaches to relations with Southeast Asia SAM Li The Making of China's Foreign Policy in the 21st century, 200-218, 2018 | 79 | 2018 |
| New Chinese leadership, new policy in the South China Sea dispute? I Chan, M Li Journal of Chinese Political Science 20 (1), 35-50, 2015 | 73 | 2015 |
| Mao’s China and the Sino-Soviet Split: Ideological Dilemma M Li Routledge, 2012 | 73 | 2012 |
| Soft power: Nurture not nature M Li Soft power: China’s emerging strategy in international politics, 1-18, 2009 | 71 | 2009 |
| Reconciling assertiveness and cooperation? China’s changing approach to the South China Sea Dispute M Li Security Challenges 6 (2), 49-68, 2010 | 53 | 2010 |
| Ideological dilemma: Mao's China and the Sino-Soviet split, 1962–63 M Li Cold War History 11 (3), 387-419, 2011 | 52 | 2011 |
| From look-West to act-West: Xinjiang’s role in China–Central Asian relations M Li Journal of Contemporary China 25 (100), 515-528, 2016 | 50 | 2016 |
| China’s “one belt, one road” initiative: New round of opening up M Li | 48 | 2015 |
| Domestic sources of China’s soft power approach M Li China Security 5 (2), 55-70, 2009 | 43 | 2009 |
| China’s water diplomacy in the Mekong: A paradigm shift and the role of Yunnan provincial government H Zhang, M Li Water international 45 (4), 347-364, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| China’s Economic Statecraft: Cooperation, Cooptation, and Coercion M Li World Scientific Press, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| China’s Economic Statecraft: Cooperation, Cooptation, and Coercion M Li world scientific press, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| The People’s Liberation Army and China’s smart power quandary in Southeast Asia M Li Journal of Strategic Studies 38 (3), 359-382, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
