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<p>Source: <a href="http://supchina.com">Sup China</a> (10/12/17)<br />
Today’s reading on the 19th Party Congress and Chairman Xi<br />
By Jeremy Goldkorn</p>
<p>If you can’t get enough news about President Xi Jinping and the <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=3ef80983dc&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Communist Party’s 19th Congress</a>, the meeting set for next week when the leadership team and policy direction for the next five years will be announced, here is a selection of interesting reading:</p>
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<li>On <em>Macro Polo</em>, Damien Ma <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=df535b8462&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that despite the extraordinary power that Xi has in his hands, and the official adoration of Xi that some call a personality cult, <strong>Xi will probably “still be bound by certain core ideas of how the Party-state behaves and functions</strong>.” Ma borrows “from the CCP’s preference for numerology” and call the core Party ideas “the <strong>Four Avoids and Three Imitates</strong>”:
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<li>Avoid the Soviet Union’s political sclerosis and collapse.</li>
<li>Avoid India’s raucous and unbridled democracy.</li>
<li>Avoid Japan’s economic bust and subsequent stagnation.</li>
<li>Avoid Latin American-style urbanization and shock therapy.</li>
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<li>At the same time:
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<li>Imitate American economic dynamism and military might.</li>
<li>Imitate elements of the European social welfare state.</li>
<li>Imitate Singapore’s competent authoritarian governance.</li>
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<li>The <em>Economist</em>’s latest <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=0e3835b85a&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cover story</a> (paywall) is titled “<strong>China’s Xi Jinping has more clout than Donald Trump. The world should be wary</strong>.” It concludes that “the world does not want an isolationist United States or a dictatorship in China. Alas, it may get both.”</li>
<li>The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies has published a <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=90f8945721&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handy infographic</a> titled “How the CCP rules, a guide to China’s leaders of Party and State.”</li>
<li>Bill Bishop of the <em>Sinocism</em> newsletter <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=a06c57c134&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>: “And so we wait. <strong>It is striking how little we know, less than we did days before previous recent Party Congress</strong>. Xi has dramatically changed information distribution and flows.”</li>
<li>Yukon Huang, former country director for China for the World Bank and senior fellow in the Carnegie Asia Program has published an <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=6ca1bffeb0&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> on <em>East Asia Forum</em> titled “<strong>Xi’s power grab might drag the economy down</strong>.”</li>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on October 13, 2017 </div>
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