Shijie Wang is a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Council on International Law, Order, and Security (CILOS). At the Council, his work focuses on China and critical minerals and their role in great-power competition and economic security.

Shijie is also Deputy Editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation, where his research focuses on Chinese industrial and technology policy, economic security, critical minerals, artificial intelligence, and domestic politics. He is the founder and author of Wang's Mineral Notes, an independent publication examining China's critical-minerals sector through Chinese-language primary sources, corporate disclosures, regulatory filings, and industry research. Hi analysis of China's rare earth export controls has circulated among staff in a U.S. congressional office, and his work has appeared in China Brief and ChinaTalk. His current research with the Alexander Hamilton Society examines China's growing position in the global copper supply chain and its implications for U.S. economic security.

Shijie holds a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and previously taught at Sichuan University Pittsburgh Institute in China.