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The Political Aims of ‘Xi Jinping Thought’

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‘Party of One’: What the Rise of Xi Jinping Means for China and the World

The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung – director and research fellow, respectively, of the China Institute at SOAS University of London and co-authors of “The Political Thought of … Read more

Will the ‘Chinese Path to Modernization’ Lead to Global Divergence?

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Will the ‘Chinese Path to Modernization’ Lead to Global Divergence?

Advertisement With the decline and eventual collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world hurriedly embraced Western liberal democracy as the “final form of human government.” However, John Fairbank, a renowned historian of China at Harvard, contested this prevailing “end-of-story” narrative, asserting that “no foreign model could fit the Chinese situation.” He believed that … Read more