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In the almost one-hundred-year existence of the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.), its current general secretary, Xi Jinping, is only the second leader clearly chosen by his peers. The first was Mao Zedong. Both men beat out the competition, and thus secured a legitimacy their predecessors lacked.1 Why was Xi chosen?The Beijing rumor mill had long indicated that the outgoing
“The Chinese Communist Party is waging a covert campaign of influence in Australia,” went the claim in the newspaper The Age, in a series of articles exploring China’s hard and soft power “Down Under.” The articles set off a domestic debate about just how wary Australians should be about their largest trading partner. How carefully should Australia manage its ties with China
Xi Jinping is reigniting China's revolutionary fire and reining in big business. His hardline mindset is the key to fathoming the conflicts to come.
Posted by Josh Rudolph | May 24, 2018 The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online “resistance discourse,” used to mock and subvert the official language around censorship and political correctness. qī bù jiǎng 七不讲 The seven don’t mentions tie down the Statue of Liberty. (Artist: Badiucao 巴丢草) Seven politically sensitive topics that the government has prohibited university professors and lecturers from discussing ...