Quando o Congresso Nacional do Povo se reúne em Pequim, numa sessão de duas semanas, para debater a situação e os seus desafios, a revista americana Foreign Affairs publica um balanço.
Quando o Congresso Nacional do Povo se reúne em Pequim, numa sessão de duas semanas, para debater a situação e os seus desafios, a revista americana Foreign Affairs, ligada ao CFR, publica um balanço do que tem sido a todo-poderosa direcção do presidente Xi Jinping, seus resultados (esperados e inesperados…) e os desafios que enfrenta e até alguns novos que criou. Uma análise muito interessante (quer se concorde ou não com ela, em parte ou em todo) e de leitura imprescindível para quem segue (mesmo que de longe) a matéria, nestes tempos de guerra económica aberta ou, talvez dizendo melhor, nestes tempos em que a guerra entre a China e os Estados Unidos ainda se restringe ao campo económico.
The Problem With Xi’s China Model
Why Its Successes Are Becoming Liabilities
By Elizabeth C. Economy | Foreign Affairs | March 6, 2019 | China Politics & Society
As China’s National People’s Congress and its advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, gather this March in Beijing for their annual two-week sessions to discuss the country’s challenges and path forward, President Xi Jinping may well be tempted to take a victory lap. Within his first five years in office, he has pioneered his own style of Chinese politics, at last upending the model Deng Xiaoping established 30 years ago. As I wrote in Foreign Affairs last year (“China’s New Revolution,” May/June 2018), Xi has moved away from Deng’s consensus-based decision-making and consolidated institutional power in his own hands. He has driven the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) more deeply into Chinese political, social, and economic life, while constraining the influence of foreign ideas and economic competition. And he has abandoned Deng’s low-profile foreign policy in favor of one that is ambitious and expansive.
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The Problem With Xi’s China Model
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