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Xi Jinping’s Self-Defeating Governance: Policy Implications and Power Politics with the Rise of Military-Industrial Leaders
With the promotion of military-industrial technocrats to central party-state leadership positions, Xi Jinping initiated a series of...
Guoguang Wu
Feb 29, 202416 min read
New Leaders in “National” Security after China’s 20th Party Congress
The 20th Party Congress in October 2022, and subsequent National People’s Congress in spring 2023, ushered in a new lineup of leaders...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Nov 30, 202319 min read
CLM Insights Interview with Yasheng Huang
Yasheng Huang. The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might...
China Leadership Monitor
Nov 30, 20236 min read
National Security after China’s 20th Party Congress: Trends in Discourse and Policy
The 20th Party Congress in October 2022 affirmed the centrality of Xi Jinping’s vision of national (or state) security in Chinese...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Aug 29, 202317 min read
Li Qiang Versus Cai Qi in the Xi Jinping Leadership: Checks and Balances with CCP Characteristics?
Parallel groupings of power and, correspondingly, tensions in personnel network building and policy priorities have emerged between...
Guoguang Wu
Aug 29, 202319 min read
CLM Insights Interview with Chun Han Wong
Chun Han Wong. Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China’s Superpower Future. New York: Avid Reader Press, May 2023. 416 pp....
China Leadership Monitor
Aug 29, 20238 min read
Xi Jinping’s New Economic Team and Government Re-organization
The annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) that ended in mid-March unveiled a new economic team and a blueprint for...
Minxin Pei
Jun 6, 202319 min read
CLM Insights Interview with Suisheng Zhao
Suisheng Zhao. The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy. Stanford University Press, 2023....
China Leadership Monitor
Jun 1, 20235 min read
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