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China Leadership Monitor
Sep 1, 20217 min read
CLM Insights: Interview with David Shambaugh
David Shambaugh, China's Leaders: From Mao to Now (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, August 31, 2021), 416 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1509546510...
Yanzhong Huang
Jun 1, 202123 min read
The Myth of Authoritarian Superiority: China’s Response to Covid-19 Revisited
Is China’s authoritarian system superior to a liberal democracy in terms of crisis management? This question is addressed by looking at...
Minxin Pei
Jun 1, 202118 min read
Threading the Needle: Balancing Security and Development in the 14th Five-Year Plan
Due to the deterioration of China’s external environment in general, and its escalating tensions with the United States in particular,...
Christopher Carothers
Mar 1, 202120 min read
Xi’s Anti-Corruption Campaign: An All-Purpose Governing Tool
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s signature anti-corruption campaign has attracted attention because of its high-profile investigations and...
Guoguang Wu
Dec 1, 202018 min read
Continuous Purges: Xi’s Public Security Apparatus and the Changing Dynamics of CCP Elite Politics
This essay identifies three waves of purges in the Ministry of Public Security under the Xi Jinping leadership, and then focuses on the...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Sep 1, 202020 min read
The Saohei Campaign, Protection Umbrellas, and China’s Changing Political-Legal Apparatus
In January 2018 China began a three-year campaign, known as the saohei campaign, to crack down on “underworld forces.” A key emphasis of...
Minxin Pei
Sep 1, 202025 min read
A Death Long Feared: How China Decided to Impose its National Security Law in Hong Kong
China’s imposition of a national security law in Hong Kong has effectively ended the “one country, two systems” governance model in the...
China Leadership Monitor
Jun 1, 20208 min read
CLM Insights Interview with Xueguang Zhou
Questions for Xueguang Zhou (周雪光), author of 中国国家治理的制度逻辑 : 一个组织学研究 [The Institutional Logic of Governance in China; An Organizational...
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