Tag: Tiananmen Square incident 1989

• 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