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A version of this piece appears on the Chinese language website of the New York Times. Just a little more than a week after the American presidential election, China will choose its own leaders in its own highly secretive way entirely inside the Communist Party. What’s at stake for China and for the rest of the world is not just who will fill which leadership posts until 2022 (two five-year terms are the norm) but whether, ten years from now, the Communist Party itself will still rule China. Most of the overseas reporting about the turnover has focused on predicting the line-up of new leaders and trying to anticipate in what direction they will take the country. This is a near-impossible task because the aspirants have hidden their policy views to avoid making mistakes that could derail their ambitions. But there are some structural features of the turnover in plain sight and are just as consequential for China’s future. The politicians who lead the party are cra ....
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Self-Hating Democracy? Photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90 Why would citizens vote freely for political leaders plotting or even promising to attack their democracy? Why do certain policies, parties or people take priority over democratic norms at the ballot box? And can democracy count on voters to save it? Professor Milan Svolik of Yale University addresses these questions through rigorous research, but no easy solutions. This episode is made possible by the Israel office of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, which promotes peace, freedom, and justice through political education. ....
Apr 24 2021, 7:16 PM April 24 2021, 5:30 PM April 24 2021, 7:16 PM (Bloomberg Opinion) Russian President Vladimir Putin is a lot of things to a lot of people. To some he is a modern-day Stalin. To others, the return of the czars. To U.S. President Joe Biden, he is a âkiller.â To former U.S. President Barack Obama, heâs âthe bored kid at the back of the classroomâ â a metaphor my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Leonid Bershidsky runs with: âHis defiance, like that of the schoolkid with an attitude, ap. (Bloomberg Opinion) Russian President Vladimir Putin is a lot of things to a lot of people. To some he is a modern-day Stalin. To others, the return of the czars. To U.S. President Joe Biden, he is a âkiller.â To former U.S. President Barack Obama, heâs âthe bored kid at the back of the classroomâ â a metaphor my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Leonid Bershidsky runs with: âHis defiance, like that of th ....
After Xi: Future Scenarios for Leadership Succession in Post-Xi Jinping Era A Joint Report of the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies and the Lowy Institute Key Findings After more than eight years in office, Xi Jinping has made himself into China’s most powerful leader since Deng Xiaoping, but in doing so, Xi has destabilised elite politics and demolished the power sharing norms that evolved since the 1980s. By removing de jure and de facto term limits on the most senior position of power, and thus far refusing to nominate his successor, Xi has solidified his own leadership position but potentially pushed the country towards a destabilising succession crisis. ....