https://www.scmp.com/rss/521206/feed Andrew Mertha is the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies and the founding director of the SAIS China Research Centre at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He specialises in bureaucratic politics, political institutions, and the domestic and foreign policy process. His most recent book is Bad Lieutenants: the Khmer Rouge, United Front, and Class Struggle, 1970-1997. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Andrew Mertha Andrew Mertha Trying to predict any country’s international behaviour is fraught with challenges. That is even more the case when that country’s political system is opaque, as is China’s. We depend on clues, turns of phrases drawn from leaders’ speeches, shards of evidence gleaned from people on the ground, and various theories (or biases in disguise). We have spent much time analysing China’s geostrategic ambitions. Much ink has been spilled on the Thucydides Trap, the notion of “peak power” or the radical... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3309241/why-china-has-refused-back-down-face-trumps-tariffs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3309241/why-china-has-refused-back-down-face-trumps-tariffs?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 May 2025 21:30:08 +0000