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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 27, 202528 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 27, 202522 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 26, 20257 min read
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...
Minxin Pei
Aug 30, 202420 min read
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,...
Guoguang Wu
Aug 30, 202419 min read
“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...
Patricia Thornton
May 30, 202420 min read
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...
China Leadership Monitor
May 30, 20246 min read
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
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