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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
Sep 1, 202217 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
Jun 1, 202218 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...
Guoguang Wu
Mar 1, 202215 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....
Minxin Pei
Mar 1, 202218 min read
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. ...
Minxin Pei
Dec 1, 202118 min read
CLM Insights: Interview with Joseph Fewsmith
Joseph Fewsmith. Rethinking Chinese Politics / Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 217 pp. ISBN :...
China Leadership Monitor
Dec 1, 20216 min read
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....
Minxin Pei
Sep 1, 202120 min read
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...
Guoguang Wu
Sep 1, 202116 min read
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