Nicholas Ross Smith

Nicholas Ross Smith, Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury.

Recent articles by Nicholas Ross Smith

The United States and its allies need to avoid caricaturing China in their foreign policies

The United States and its allies need to avoid caricaturing China in their foreign policies

Nicholas Ross Smith, from the University of Canterbury, argues that the temptation to essentialise China as simply being a Xi-led CCP monolith that will stop at nothing to re-integrate Taiwan and seek global domination overlooks the complexity of domestic politics in China. Basing policy on a simple caricature of China is a recipe for disaster.

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