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Minxin Pei
Dec 16, 202018 min read
Beijing’s New Economic Strategy from the Resolution of the CCP Central Committee’s 5th Plenum
At the 5th plenum of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at the end of October 2020, Chinese leaders unveiled...
Terry Sicular
Dec 1, 202020 min read
Will China Eliminate Poverty in 2020?
In 2015 China announced the ambitious target of eliminating poverty by 2020. Since then China has launched an all-out, campaign-style...
Oriana Skylar Mastro
Dec 1, 202020 min read
The PLA’s Evolving Role in China’s South China Sea Strategy
During the past eight months of the global COVID pandemic, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been active in promoting...
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...
Jude Blanchette
Dec 1, 202019 min read
From “China Inc.” to “CCP Inc.”: A New Paradigm for Chinese State Capitalism
CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping has overseen a significant transformation of China’s domestic economic system, undergirded by important...
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