Abdou Rahim Lema is a Ph.D. candidate and a 2022 Vanier Scholar at the University of Montreal. He is also a former Yenching Scholar of Peking University (2018 cohort), where he completed a Master’s degree in China Studies. His Ph.D. dissertation focuses on development-security nexus in China-Africa relations. Broadly, his research interest is mainly in South-South cooperation, triangular cooperation, and Sino-African security and development relations.