How China's Xi Jinping has misread history

Philip Stephens

Mar 15

Chinese emperors are all-powerful until the moment they are toppled

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Daniel Schwickerath

Thanks, what say about about your former collegue’s article on China snd the book he writes that Xi’s approach is mainstream Chinese?

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Thank you Philip. A welcome reminder that apparently enduring bureaucracies do fail at some point.

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