Tag: Party-state equation

• Takeaways from Xi’s Congress

  Originally published at The Indian Express, 24 October 2022. p.14. Published online as ‘Xi Jinping’s Congress: What are the implications for China, the world, and India?’ What are the main takeaways  from the CPC Congress?  The CPC’s 20th Congress underlined General Secretary Xi Jinping’s role not just as the core of the Central Committee but also…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  24 October 2022

  Foreign Policy, Political Parties, War and Conflict

  20th CPC Congress, centralisation, Chinese foreign policy, Communist Party of China (CPC), Deng Xiaoping, Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, Li Keqiang, Party-state equation, Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC), Sino-Indian relations, Xi Jinping

• Why factional politics might no longer matter in China

  Originally published at 9DashLine, 6 October 2022. It is axiomatic that authoritarian states will be more vulnerable to sudden leadership changes or to regime collapse than open, democratic systems. Therefore, it is natural for China’s leaders to worry, and not entirely surprising that the Chinese Party-state has spent more on internal security than it has…

  Jabin T. Jacob

  6 October 2022

  Political Parties

  anti-corruption, centralisation, Chinese economy, Chinese exceptionalism, Communist Party of China (CPC), democracy, factional politics, Jiang Zemin, nationalism, Party-state equation, Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC), succession politics, Tiananmen Square incident 1989, Xi Jinping