"Between taizidang and tuanpai: What’s next for China's succession ", Seán Golden

Between taizidang and tuanpai: What's next for China's succession

Both the United States and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) are facing succession crises in the autumn of 2012. One will be resolved by democratic elections, the other by democratic centralism. In both cases short-term and long-term strategies are at stake. In the short term, jockeying for power promotes radical rhetoric for immediate domestic consumption and political gain, even though this rhetoric could be counterproductive for any effective long-term strategy in a globalised economy

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Autor/a: Seán Golden, Senior Research Fellow Associate, CIDOB

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