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Zero COVID artificially and unnecessarily created the perfect condition for a political thunderstorm that could shake the ruling legitimacy and control mechanism of the party-state.

In their rhetoric, politicians may emphasize the distinction between the CCP and the people, but this serves to justify increasingly hawkish policies that don’t really consider that division.

With no space for a successor to Xi Jinping, China’s leadership is getting older as generational change slows down.

In China’s haphazard COVID-19 opening, Xi has created a crisis of a scale unseen since Mao.

Current Communist Party leader Xi Jinping praised Jiang in an hour-long address at Beijing's Great Hall of the People.

One can attribute many of China’s current achievements and problems to policies initiated during Jiang’s tenure. 

Jiang led China from 1989 to 2002, a period that saw explosive growth in China’s economy and global status but also laid the seeds for many of the issues facing the country today.

Insights from Benjamin Tsai.

Xi’s consolidation of power has been obtained through steps that have arguably strengthened the cohesion and institutional strength of the CCP as a whole.

A multi-year effort has brought strongman rule back into the Communist Party liturgy.

Revisiting the resilience of the age limit norm and exploring two counterfactuals.