Research interests
China's politics and diplomacy; Sino-Indonesian relations; pluralism and Chinese Indonesian political participation.

Christine Susanna Tjhin joined CSIS in April 2003. She was involved in democratisation assessment in Southeast Asia, as part of the ASEAN People's Assembly initiatives, and programs related to political development and civil society empowerment in post-tsunami Aceh.

She was a research program officer at the Indonesian Pluralism Institute from 2002 until 2003. She was involved in Bridging Diversity Training Project, which aimed to develop training modules on pluralism and peace building for local activists. Christine is a member of the Anti-Torture Network Indonesia with Asian Human Rights Commission , Coalition of Participatory Policy (KKP), Emergency Humanitarian Commission (KDK) for Aceh, Indonesian Women for Legislative Reform, etc.

She obtained her Bachelor degree in Management from Tarumanagara University, Jakarta in 1998. She participated in the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations in Bangkok (1997), Kuala Lumpur (1998), and Beijing (2000); also Harvard World Model United Nations in Cambridge University (1999). She was awarded the Australian Development Scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies at the Australian National University, Canberra in 1999 and received her Master of Arts degree in East Asian studies in 2002.

In 2006, she was awarded the Gesit Overseas Charity Foundation grant to study at the International College for Chinese Studies, Fujian Teachers University, Fuzhou. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the School of International Studies, Peking University, China.