Hearings of seven congressional committees aired concerns about the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s perceived threat to U.S. economic and national security on Tuesday. Catch up on the flurry of China-focused committee action on Capitol Hill this week👇
– where the government issues its annual Work Report on the achievements of the past year and publishes projections of future economic growth.
The NPC “is a signaling exercise of what the leadership's goals are, and what they want everyone to think about going forward,”, Trustee chair in Chinese business and economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told reporters on Wednesday. This year the CCP will emphasize “continuity” and stress that China is “‘getting back to normal’ – the pandemic is over,” Kennedy said.
We used to think that the political successions in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao were triumphs of inner party democracy, leading to a victory of “reformers” over “conservatives” or “radicals.” I show that in fact the post-cult of personality power struggles in history’s two greatest Leninist regimes were instead shaped by the politics of personal prestige, historical antagonisms, backhanded political maneuvering and violence.
But most importantly, political maneuvering in an environment with weak institutions mattered more than the potential “size” of a competitor’s constituency.Chinese politics are not a popularity contest. Leaders are not usually punished for foreign policy failures or because some group within the leadership thinks another approach is more suitable.
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