Yalkun Uluyol is a Ph.D. candidate in International Relations at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. His primary fields of interest include comparative politics and international political economy, and his research focuses on the rise of China and its entanglement in the dynamics of the international order. He is now working on his Ph.D. dissertation, "Middle Powers in the Changing International Order: Turkey and Malaysia in Comparative Perspectives,” supervised by Prof. Dr. Ziya Öniş. His recent publications focus on the political economy of Turkey-China relations and the global implications of China's rights violations against Uyghurs, specifically on transnational repression and forced labor.