Do Chinese Leaders and Elites Think Their Best Days Are Behind Them?
Despite its current economic slump, official statements by senior Chinese leaders indicate that they remain optimistic about the...
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Guoguang Wu
- Aug 31
- 19 min
Has Xi Jinping Reached His Peak? Power Concentration versus Governance Capability
Through analyzing the strengths and limitations of Xi Jinping’s power in its interactions with the CCP regime’s governance performance,...
Patricia Thornton
- May 30
- 20 min
“Lying Flat-ism”: Is the Party Under Xi “Governing People to Death”?
In a January 2023 talk to the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, shortly after the wave of “A4 protests” that called for an end to...
China Leadership Monitor
- May 30
- 6 min
CLM Insights Interview with Steve Tsang
Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung. The Political Thought of Xi Jinping. Oxford University Press, December 2023. 294 pp. ISBN: 0197689361...
Guoguang Wu
- Feb 29
- 16 min
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...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
- Nov 30, 2023
- 19 min
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...
China Leadership Monitor
- Nov 30, 2023
- 6 min
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...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
- Aug 29, 2023
- 17 min
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...
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