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 na’s fragmented foreign policy
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DESCRIPTION:The conventional wisdom in policy and many academic circles sur
 rounding Chinese foreign policy is that China is an inexorably rising top-
 down\, monolithic\, authoritarian juggernaut. The argument in this present
 ation is that such an assumption is at best incomplete and at worst inaccu
 rate and distortionary. By contrast\, this presentation looks at how Chine
 se rough-and-tumble domestic politics have become internationalized\, deep
 ly complicating foreign policy decisions crafted in the halls of power in 
 Beijing and playing out in aid- and investment-recipient countries. This i
 s not simply a question of domestic politics constraining international po
 litics but rather of domestic politics competing with\, and in some cases 
 supplanting\, China’s nationally defined foreign policy goals. Because C
 hina’s domestic politics are overwhelmingly fragmented\, decentralized\,
  and subnational in character\, such a framing is in sharp contrast with a
 nd in direct opposition to our most important key assumptions of Chinese g
 overnance\, domestic and international. This presentation takes as its cas
 e studies four Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries – Nicaragua\, My
 anmar\, Ghana\, and Cambodia – to illustrate this larger trend. This tal
 k will be led by Professor Andrew Mertha (Johns Hopkins) with Faculty Mode
 rator Professor Stanley Rosen (POSC 469: Soft Power in Political Science a
 nd International Relations). This event is cosponsored by Dornsife East As
 ian Studies Center and the USC U.S.-China Institute. \n\nRSVP here.
LOCATION:USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (ASC)\, 207
SUMMARY:China’s domestic politics beyond water’s edge: BRI and China’
 s fragmented foreign policy
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