Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
Feb 07, 2018
In 2018, the 40th anniversary of "reform & opening," how party leaders tell the story of China's transition over the past 40 years will shape future policy steps, both at home and abroad.
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
Jan 30, 2018
A solution to local government debt is strengthening the central bank’s supervision over it.
Christopher A. McNally, Professor of Political Economy, Chaminade University
Dec 08, 2017
The China model could lead to more varied views on what works and doesn’t in economic development.
Christopher A. McNally, Professor of Political Economy, Chaminade University
Oct 23, 2017
Many observers note that President Xi Jinping’s opening speech at the 19th National Congress did not spell out major new economic reform initiatives. Nonetheless, economic reform has neither stalled nor backtracked in the past five years, and is even less likely to do so if Xi Jinping successfully consolidates his power with the 19th Congress.
Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution
Lucy Xu, Senior Research Assistant, Thornton China Center
Apr 27, 2017
Xi Jinping’s administration has emphasized the promotion of leaders who have worked in China’s poorest and most remote provinces, or “hardship” regions. But not all emerging heavyweights with experience in hardship regions are Xi Jinping’s protégés. In fact, some have strong personal ties to Hu Jintao (胡锦涛) and Li Keqiang (李克强).
Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution
Yiou Zhang, Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University
Apr 19, 2017
Though the Chinese leadership has labored over the past three decades to instill rules and norms into its elite selection process, concerns have persisted over the effectiveness and durability of these nascent institutional mechanisms. What institutional limitations and political barriers stand in the way? The selection of ethnic minority leaders provides a good case study that sheds valuable light on these questions.
Cheng Li, Director, John L. Thornton China Center, The Brookings Institution
Lucy Xu, Senior Research Assistant, Thornton China Center
Feb 21, 2017
Can business leaders become central players in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership? The recent rise of provincial chiefs (governors and provincial party secretaries) who have experience as top commanders of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suggests that these individuals will play a more pronounced role in Chinese politics in the years ahead.
Madison Freeman, Project Assistant, Atlantic Council
Feb 27, 2017
With commitments to clean energy and combatting climate change wavering under the new US administration, leadership in renewable energy is quietly shifting away from the United States across the Pacific, where China is rapidly building its dominance.
Guo Dong, Director of the Earth Institute China Initiative, Columbia University
Kelsie DeFrancia, Assistant Director for the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management, Columbia University
Feb 27, 2017
Now is the time, especially given the Trump Administration’s stance on environment, for China to assume the leadership role with more assertiveness and confidence, be more proactive in working with other nations, and coordinate global actions to curb pollution.
Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government , Claremont McKenna College
Feb 08, 2017
Politically, grabbing one of China’s most well-connected tycoons sends a powerful message to the “tigers” who have so far survived Xi’s anti-corruption drive. However, to destroy the corruption market requires more than the arrest and incarceration of the participants but fundamental economic reform.