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China politics
![Russia’s Irrational War in Ukraine Should Be a Warning for Predicting China’s Behavior Russia’s Irrational War in Ukraine Should Be a Warning for Predicting China’s Behavior](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-09-13-115522.jpg)
Russia’s Irrational War in Ukraine Should Be a Warning for Predicting China’s Behavior
By Jan Švec
Many of the factors that led to Putin’s disastrous decision are also present in China’s authoritarian system.
![Why Xi Jinping’s China Will Clamp Down Harder on Domestic Criticism Why Xi Jinping’s China Will Clamp Down Harder on Domestic Criticism](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-protest1.jpg)
Why Xi Jinping’s China Will Clamp Down Harder on Domestic Criticism
By Corey Lee Bell
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.
![How Beijing Accidentally Ended the Zero COVID Policy How Beijing Accidentally Ended the Zero COVID Policy](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2023-01-06-145223.jpg)
How Beijing Accidentally Ended the Zero COVID Policy
By Zhuoran Li
China’s central government aimed to modify the zero COVID policy incrementally following the 20th Party Congress. What went wrong?
![Frank Dikotter on How China Changed (and Didn’t) After Mao Frank Dikotter on How China Changed (and Didn’t) After Mao](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-07-18-130358.jpg)
Frank Dikotter on How China Changed (and Didn’t) After Mao
By Shannon Tiezzi
“Since 1976, changes have been introduced to a rigidly collectivized economy in order to build up socialism, not to abandon it.”
![Has Xi Averted a ‘Winter of Discontent’ in China? Has Xi Averted a ‘Winter of Discontent’ in China?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-crowd.jpg)
Has Xi Averted a ‘Winter of Discontent’ in China?
By Dan Macklin
Ending “zero COVID” is Beijing’s best option, but it comes at the worst possible time.
![China’s Information Problems Are Only Getting Worse China’s Information Problems Are Only Getting Worse](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-09-13-134945.jpg)
China’s Information Problems Are Only Getting Worse
By Eduardo Jaramillo
Xi’s insistence on personal loyalty risks a climate of sycophancy and rigid unanimity in the ranks of China’s top leaders.
![Jiang Zemin Hailed by China’s Top Leaders in Memorial Service Jiang Zemin Hailed by China’s Top Leaders in Memorial Service](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-12-06-143008.jpg)
Jiang Zemin Hailed by China’s Top Leaders in Memorial Service
By Associated Press
Current Communist Party leader Xi Jinping praised Jiang in an hour-long address at Beijing's Great Hall of the People.
![Jiang Zemin’s Mixed Legacy Jiang Zemin’s Mixed Legacy](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-11-30-150717.jpg)
Jiang Zemin’s Mixed Legacy
By Zhiqun Zhu
One can attribute many of China’s current achievements and problems to policies initiated during Jiang’s tenure.
![Jiang Zemin, Who Guided China’s Economic Rise, Dies Jiang Zemin, Who Guided China’s Economic Rise, Dies](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-11-30-150717.jpg)
Jiang Zemin, Who Guided China’s Economic Rise, Dies
By Joe McDonald
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.
![Grassroots Protests Are Frequent in Xi Jinping’s China Grassroots Protests Are Frequent in Xi Jinping’s China](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-china-flag-protest1.jpg)
Grassroots Protests Are Frequent in Xi Jinping’s China
By Kevin Slaten
In the streets, on banners, in cyberspace, collectively, and individually – people in China are speaking out.
![China’s Performative Zero-COVID Policy China’s Performative Zero-COVID Policy](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-04-29-150515.jpg)
China’s Performative Zero-COVID Policy
By Zhuoran Li
To bolster their standing during the pandemic, local cadres are putting a new twist on the concept of performative governance.
![China’s 20th Party Congress: Continuity and Change China’s 20th Party Congress: Continuity and Change](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2022-09-13-115522.jpg)
China’s 20th Party Congress: Continuity and Change
By Mercy A. Kuo
Insights from Benjamin Tsai.