Jeremy Paltiel is Professor Emeritus of political science at Carleton University. He is author of The Empire’s New Clothes: Cultural Particularism and Universality in China’s Rise to Global Status (Palgrave, 2007). With Huhua Cao, he co–edited, Facing China as a New Global Superpower: Domestic and International Dynamics from a Multidisciplinary Angle (Springer, 2015). With David Carment and Laura Macdonald, he co–edited and contributed to Canada and Great Power Competition Canada among Nations 2021 (Palgrave, 2022). He has contributed numerous other articles on Chinese politics, East Asian foreign relations and Sino-Canadian relations. His most recent publications include: “Unable to Resist: Unwilling to Take Risks—Canada in the Vice of Sino-American Rivalry” in Kenneth Holland (ed.) Canada in Competing Indo-Pacific Visions of China and the US (Palgrave, 2024); “Partner to Peril: The Trudeau record on relations with China and emerging markets” in Katherine Scott, Laura Macdonald and Stewart Trew (eds.), The Trudeau Record: Promise v. Performance (Lorimer, 2024); and with Karl Yan, “Conceptualizing the BRI: Complex Bilateralism in Theory and Practice in Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey (eds.), Seeing China’s Belt and Road (Oxford University Press, 2025).