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Minxin Pei
Dec 1, 202219 min read
Policy Continuity with Rhetorical Escalation: Xi's Political Report to the 20th Party Congress
The political report Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China represents a...
Guoguang Wu
Dec 1, 202217 min read
New Faces, New Factional Dynamics: CCP Leadership Politics Following the 20th Party Congress
The 20th National Congress, which met in October 2022, reorganized the central leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, with party...
China Leadership Monitor
Dec 1, 20227 min read
CLM Insights Interview with Victor C. Shih
Victor C. Shih. Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi. Cambridge University Press. June...
Minxin Pei
Sep 1, 202221 min read
Xi Jinping’s Political Agenda and Leadership: What do we know from his decade in power
The political agenda of Chinese President Xi Jinping during his first decade in power consisted of three core components: establishing...
Guoguang Wu
Sep 1, 202217 min read
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
Jun 1, 202218 min read
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
Mar 1, 202215 min read
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
Mar 1, 202218 min read
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....
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