Diego Telias is Deputy Director and Lecturer in the Department of International Studies at Universidad ORT Uruguay. He holds a PhD and a master’s degree in political science (specialization in International Relations) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he is an academic collaborator at the Center for Asian Studies and an associate researcher at the Millennium Nucleus ICLAC – Impacts of China in Latin America. As part of his PhD research, he conducted fieldwork in Central Europe, including a visit to Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the Fudan Development Institute at Fudan University in China. He has published in Democratization, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, The Pacific Review, Journal of Chinese Current Affairs, Asian Education and Development Studies, The International Spectator, and Estudos Internacionais, among others. His areas of interest include foreign policy analysis, East Asia–Latin America relations, and China’s relations with small states.