The 20th National Congress, which met in October 2022, reorganized the central leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, with party...

Victor C. Shih. Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi. Cambridge University Press. June...

The political agenda of Chinese President Xi Jinping during his first decade in power consisted of three core components: establishing...

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

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

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

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

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