Dans une analyse exceptionnelle, la dissidente Cai Xia montre comment le président chinois exerce un pouvoir solitaire et paranoïaque. En coulisses, la grogne monte.
Xi Jinping may well ruin something China has earned over the course of four decades: a reputation for steady, competent leadership, writes Cai Xia for Foreign Affairs.
It is difficult to say with any certainty how China would have evolved had Zhao Ziyang not been overthrown in 1989. The ostensible cause of his purge was his refusal to endorse martial law and authorize the use of force to suppress the Tiananmen demonstrations (thus “splitting the Party”) but even before that fateful Politburo meeting and his final public appearance in the
Almost 500 previously unpublished documents about Zhao Ziyang, the bold reformer who served as China’s premier (1980-1987) and Communist Party general secretary (1987-1989), were smuggled out of China and published in late July by the Chinese University Press in Hong Kong. The documents show how Zhao led a decade of transformational economic reform and sketched out plans for
Succession has become an omnipresent problem not only in China but throughout Asia. Long-lasting regimes under aging rulers are entering their twilight zone in North Korea, Burma, and Indonesia, and face a period of weakness and uncertainty, for the moment of succession is the midnight of the state; in Taiwan, the midnight hour has just struck. Where a change of leaders is