PhD in International Relations and researcher at Instituto do Oriente (ISCSP/University of Lisbon). Author of several books on China's geopolitics, including “China: Cooperation and Conflict on the Taiwan Question”, “The Hour of the Dragon - China's Foreign Policy”, “China in the Great War - The Conquest of the New International Identity” and “China's Techno-Nationalism in the Global Era – Strategic Implications for Europe”. He has several articles published in national and foreign journals, in the area of Asia-Pacific geopolitics. Editor at the National Defense Institute (IDN).