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Can Xi Jinping Control the PLA?
Recent purges of senior Chinese military officers have renewed the question of how firmly in charge of the People’s Liberation Army is Xi...
Joel Wuthnow
Feb 2721 min read

Burying Deng: Xi Jinping and the Abnormalization of Chinese Politics
If Xi Jinping has accomplished nothing else in his tenure, he has succeeded in methodically bending or breaking the norms that have...
Jonathan Czin
Feb 2728 min read


From Purge to Control: A Recent Pivot in Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Crackdown
A striking anomaly marks Xi Jinping’s never-ending anti-corruption campaign. Twelve years after its launch, the number of party members...
Minxin Pei
Feb 2722 min read

CLM Insights Interview with Robert Suettinger
Robert L. Suettinger. The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China’s Communist Reformer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press....
China Leadership Monitor
Feb 267 min read
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