Tag Archives: Chinese governance

Good backgrounder. Relatively short. From another vantage, Xi Jinping is also reformulating Chinese Communist thought. This is the underlying meaning of Xi Jinping Thought. Xi is emphasizing the continuous history of China as the "Middle Kingdom" operating "under Heaven." The CCP now holds the mantle and will only do so and can only do so as long as it possesses the "mandate of Heaven." Debunking the "China-watchers."Xi Jinping is moving away from the European roots of Communism in...

In a fast-changing world, governance systems must support rapid decision-making under conditions of radical uncertainty, while maintaining accountability. That – not the Western expectation of what a governance system should look like – is the standard by which we should be assessing political developments in China.… Exactly so. Same for other countries like Russia. American objections to the type of government in China, Russia, Iran, etc. are disingenuous when compared with widespread...