China politics

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

Beijing continues to face significant uncertainties at home and abroad, as the recent “Balloon-gate” saga demonstrates.

Xi’s eventual successor will face the problem of major revisions to the party constitution – meaning a complicated transition period.

Many of the factors that led to Putin’s disastrous decision are also present in China’s authoritarian system.

The COVID-19 protests took aim at Xi personally – arguably a result of his high-profile moves to exert firm control over all levels of government.

China’s central government aimed to modify the zero COVID policy incrementally following the 20th Party Congress. What went wrong?

“Since 1976, changes have been introduced to a rigidly collectivized economy in order to build up socialism, not to abandon it.”

Ending “zero COVID” is Beijing’s best option, but it comes at the worst possible time.

Xi’s insistence on personal loyalty risks a climate of sycophancy and rigid unanimity in the ranks of China’s top leaders.

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.