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Guoguang Wu

Killing the Dreams, Keeping the Same Regime: Xi’s Ten-Year Struggle to Remake CCP Elite Politics

This essay presents a retrospective examination of China’s elite politics during Xi Jinping’s ten years in power. It focuses on the...

Guoguang Wu

The Ukrainian Challenge to China’s Leadership Politics: An Emerging Divergence in Foreign Policy

Despite China’s pro-Russia stance with respect to the invasion of Ukraine, divergent perspectives exist among Chinese policy elites...

Guoguang Wu

Politics, Norms in Leadership Reorganization toward the 20th Party Congress: Preliminary Observation

This essay investigates CCP dynamics with respect to the leadership reorganization at the forthcoming 20th Party Congress by exploring...

Minxin Pei

A Tale of Three Resolutions: A Close Reading of Xi Jinping’s Version of CCP History

The 6th plenum of the CCP Central Committee in November 2021 passed a landmark resolution on the party’s one hundred years of history....

Minxin Pei

The Origins and Implications of Xi Jinping’s “Common Prosperity” Agenda

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) formally unveiled a “common prosperity” agenda in August of this year. The concept is not new. ...

China Leadership Monitor

CLM Insights: Interview with Joseph Fewsmith

Joseph Fewsmith. Rethinking Chinese Politics / Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 217 pp. ISBN :...

Minxin Pei

The CCP’s Domestic Security Taskmaster: The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission

The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party oversees the vast coercive apparatus of the party-state....

Guoguang Wu

Emergence of the Central Office of Foreign Affairs: From leadership Politics to "Greater Diplomacy"

This essay examines how the Central Office of Foreign Affairs (COFA) has risen within the Chinese party-state system to become an...

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