Xiao Liang

Researcher

Xiao Liang

Xiao Liang is a Researcher in the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme. He collects and analyses data on military spending and the arms industry. His research areas cover the opportunity costs and reduction of military spending, relationship between military aid and development assistance, and regional trends in the Asia Pacific.

Prior to joining SIPRI, he worked with the Centre for Child Rights and Business of Save the Children Sweden (Hong Kong) and Sustainable Energy for All (Austria), where he worked on child labour and Monitoring & Evaluation. He has also interned with the OECD (France) and UN Women (United States). He received dual master’s degree from Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris.

Subject expertise

Military expenditure, Arms production, Development aid

Regional expertise

Asia Pacific, Latin America

CONTACT Xiao Liang

Languages

Mandarin, English, Spanish, French

Education

M.A. International Affairs, Columbia University SIPA; M.A. International Development, Sciences Po Paris; B.A. Hispanic and Latin American Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University

SIPRI COMMENTARY

Military spending and development aid after the invasion of Ukraine (Topical backgrounder, January 2024 )
The proposed hike in Japan’s military expenditure (Topical backgrounder, January 2023 )
What can we learn from China’s military aid to the Pacific? (Blog, June 2022 )

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D., Liang, X. and Scarazzato, L., Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2023 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2024)
Scarazzato, L., Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D., Liang, X. and Djokic, K., The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2023 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2024)
Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D., Liang, X., Scarazzato, L., Béraud-Sudreau, L. and Assis, A., Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2022 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2023)
Liang, X., Scarazzato, L., Béraud-Sudreau, L., Tian, N., Lopes da Silva, D., Choi, Y. and Kristjan Sild, E., The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2022 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2023)
Using Taxation to Fund Military Spending (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2023)
Lopes Da Silva, D., Tian, N., Béraud-Sudreau, L., Marksteiner, A. and Liang, X., Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2021 (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2022)
Béraud-Sudreau, L., Liang, X., Lopes da Silva, D., Tian, N. and Scarazzato, L., The SIPRI Top 100 Arms-producing and Military Services Companies, 2021 (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2022)
Béraud-Sudreau, L., Liang, X., Wezeman, S. T. and Sun, M., Arms-production Capabilities in the Indo-Pacific Region: Measuring Self-reliance (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2022)

5. Military expenditure and developments in arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2024)
5. Military expenditure and arms production (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2023)
8. Military expenditure (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2022)

External publications

Scarazzato, L., Liang, X., Tian, N., & Lopes da Silva, D. Developments in Arms Production and the Effects of the War in Ukraine. Defence and Peace Economics, pp. 1–21 (2024)
Liang, X. and Su, F., Ten-year review of China’s defence budget: Steadily toward modernisation, 9dashline, (9 May 2023)
Liang, X., Development Co-operation Report 2018: Joining Forces to Leave No One Behind, OECD, Paris (2018)
Liang, X., OECD Development Co-operation Peer Reviews: European Union 2018, OECD, Paris (2018)