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Confronting China's War on Religion (Part 1) May 05, 2023
In 2016, when President Xi Jinping delivered a speech calling for the “Sinicization of religion”in a nation of one billion, he was espousing a century-old impulse among his people while also inadvertently underscoring a persistent paradox that Chines...
History Shows Chinese Agitators in For Rude Awakening December 01, 2022
“Chinese people should be braver!” the young man with a handful of yellow flowers exhorted the large crowd gathered in central Shanghai on Sunday. “Am I breaking the law by holding these flowers? They don’t dare to arrest us!”Moments later he was tac...
How West Seriously Misread Xi Jinping's Intentions October 19, 2022
For someone with such honorable credentials in Chinese Communist Party history, Xi Jinping has spent decades behaving modestly. The son of Xi Zhongxun – a CCP historical figure who not only played an important role in protecting Mao Zedong during the...
Xi Jinping Dashes Hopes of Open, Reformed China October 17, 2022
As Xi Jinping was preparing to take the helm of the Chinese Communist Party a decade ago, a great number of China’s political, business and intellectual elites were hopeful that he would make their country more open, just and prosperous.They included...
How, Why China Is Once Again Authoritarian October 05, 2022
Ten years ago China was in the midst of what was being touted as a remarkably predictable and peaceful transfer of power—proof that its authoritarian system of government was capable of implementing term limits and an orderly succession from one top ...
CCP Cements Xi's Legacy November 12, 2021
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has formally etched his name alongside the greatest figures in the annals of Communist Party history, paving the way for him to strengthen and extend his rule over the world’s most populous country.China’s most senior offici...
Does China Have a Succession Problem? October 01, 2021
Does Xi Jinping’s China face a looming succession crisis? Some analysts argue that it does because Xi’s elimination of the term limit on his leadership position and the concentration of power therein would precipitate such a crisis. Others are more s...
How Failed USSR Is Influencing Xi Jinping June 22, 2021
Xi Jinping’s campaign of repression in Xinjiang is tinged with an urgency that only historical parallel can provide. The Soviet Union’s collapse haunts his brutal crackdown there. Xi and his advisors have long identified ethnic unrest and separatist ...
CCP Just Keeps Rewriting History June 14, 2021
In February the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, held a gala reception at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to announce a momentous accomplishment: the elimination of extreme rural poverty in China. The grand event—in an enormous ballroom with hundr...
Xi's China Looking a Lot Like Qing China January 06, 2020
jinAre we finally seeing Pax Sinica 2.0, or is China engaging in a self-fulfilling prophecy that will lead to its doom (again)?Back in 2013, I wrote in the Post that China proffered a valid voice that would help maintain and shape the international ...
Xi Is Channeling Charles de Gaulle, Not Mao December 04, 2019
The transformation of Xi Jinping is happening before our eyes. With the insertion of Xi Jinping Thought into the Communist Party’s constitution and the possibility that a quarter-century consensus on two-term leaders will be ended, it’s clear that Ch...
China's Xi Jinping Love Affair With CCP December 20, 2018
December 18 marked the 40th anniversary of China's “reform and opening” policy, which was inaugurated at the Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), held December 18 to 22, 1978. The entire year has seen a num...
