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Kerry Brown

Kerry Brown

Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London.

Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London, and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, London.

He is the author of The New Emperors (I.B. Tauris, 2014), a book on the leadership of modern China.

Posts by Kerry Brown
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February 05, 2014

Attention China and Japan: Grow Up

By Kerry Brown
China and Japan's rhetoric towards each other more resembles playground insults than rational, mature foreign policy.
January 21, 2014

Xi's "Man of the People" Persona

By Kerry Brown
Xi Jinping is creating an image of himself as a man of the people. Without actions to back it up, his PR could backfire.

January 11, 2014

How Xi Can Solve The Tibet Problem

By Kerry Brown
Xi Jinping could help quiet unrest in Tibet simply by making sure existing policies are enacted more efficiently.

December 26, 2013

History, Family, and Entitlement: The New Leaders in Northeast Asia

By Kerry Brown
Today's leaders in Northeast Asia share a sense of historical entitlement, due to long family histories of leadership.

December 10, 2013

The Battle for Democracy in Hong Kong

By Kerry Brown
Bringing democracy to Hong Kong will help solve its local problems as well as have a positive impact on the mainland.
November 23, 2013

After The Plenum, All Power To The Party

The real winners of the 2013 Third Plenum are Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party.

November 11, 2013

In China, All Politics are Getting More Local

Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang’s core constituency consists of China’s roughly 3,200 local party leaders.

October 31, 2013

PRC Is Biggest Obstacle to Unification With Taiwan

The dirty secret in cross-Strait relations: China’s political system is the biggest barrier to unification.

October 16, 2013

How Imperial Japan Shaped Modern China

A new book explores how Japan’s brutal occupation is still shaping Sino-Japanese relations.

October 01, 2013

The Allies and Enemies of Xi Jinping

One can learn a lot about the new Chinese leadership by who its allies and enemies are, and how it deals with both.

September 17, 2013

Why China Misses the Unipolar Moment

For Beijing, Syria shows the perils of not having a global hegemon to rely on.

September 02, 2013

China and India: Mirror Images?

Beijing and Delhi complement each other nicely. While China has development down, India excels at the political.

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