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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
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
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