Nearly a year to the day after seven new leaders ascended to their posts on the Standing Committee of China’s Politburo, the Asia Society held a public conversation with
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos; Dr. Susan Shirk of the University of California, San Diego; Former Ambassador to China, J. Stapleton Roy; and Orville Schell. The discussion, which you can watch and read below in full, covered China’s leadership transition so far its successes, shortcomings, and controversies as well as the future of the China’s political system.
The Editors
[3:50]: Orville Schell: It’s great to have you all, thanks for coming. And it’s wonderful to have this very interesting group of colleagues to reflect on this moment. As you know, Chinese history in its most contemporary guise tends to go in ten-year periods, when new leaderships are appointed, and they have two five-year terms. And of course the most powerful part of any leadership is the party.
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Posted By Ruth King on December 28th, 2020
Over there in
The Wall Street Journal as we travel through the Christmas holiday season, was this very perceptive piece by one David Satter. Mr. Satter is identified as the “author of
At one stage in his earlier life he was the Moscow correspondent for
The Financial Times of London, arriving in the Soviet capital in 1976. He went on to work for
The Wall Street Journal as a special correspondent covering Soviet affairs. Suffice to say, he knows well how a state-run media runs.
Among other things in his WSJ article Satter says this: