Maria Adele Carrai is a Marie Curie Fellow at KU Leuven and a Fellow at Harvard University Asia Center. Her book Sovereignty in China. A Genealogy of a Concept Since 1840 is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. She has discussed in depth the Chinese lease of Hambantota and the question of sovereignty in China’s Malleable Sovereignty Along the Belt and Road Initiative: The Case of the 99-year Chinese Lease of Hambantota Port, N.Y.U. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLITICS 51 (2019).