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CLM Insights Interview with Suisheng Zhao
Suisheng Zhao. The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy. Stanford University Press, 2023....
China Leadership Monitor
Jun 1, 20235 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...
Minxin Pei
Dec 1, 202219 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...
Guoguang Wu
Dec 1, 202217 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...
China Leadership Monitor
Dec 1, 20227 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...
Minxin Pei
Sep 1, 202221 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
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
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