Xi Jinping at the helm of the Chinese Communist Party

Lim Tai Wei

Inserted 2 years ago

“[Xi Jinping] needs the legitimacy of leading members of the party for an unprecedented additional term, especially when he is not normatively following a term limit convention - convention, not law - in the post-Mao era.”

Aljazeera

Senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore

08 Nov 2021 2 4

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

Inserted 2 years ago

“He [Xi Jinping] is like a sponge that can take all the positive things from the past - what he thinks is positive about Mao and Deng - and he can bring them all together. In that telling he is China's own end of history. He has reached a level that cannot be surpassed.”

Nytimes

Retired professor at the University of Vienna who studies the Chinese Communist Party's use of history

07 Nov 2021 5 4

Joseph Torigian

Inserted 2 years ago

“Mr. Xi [Xi Jinping] sees history as a tool to use against the biggest threats to Chinese Communist Party rule. He's also someone who sees that competing narratives of history are dangerous.”

Nytimes

Assistant professor at American University

07 Nov 2021 3 3

Geremie R. Barmé

Inserted 2 years ago

“This is about creating a new timescape for China around the Communist Party and Xi [Xi Jinping] in which he is riding the wave of the past towards the future. It is not really a resolution about past history, but a resolution about future leadership.”

Nytimes

Historian of China based in New Zealand

07 Nov 2021 2 2

Peter Jennings

Inserted 2 years ago

“Internationally, Xi [Xi Jinping] has been a successful risk-taker. He staged a takeover of the South China Sea and militarised reclaimed 'island' bases with no effective international response; he has prosecuted wholesale cyber intellectual property theft around the world with, until recently, most countries reluctant to even name China as the cause; he trashed Beijing's agreement with the UK over Hong Kong and is rolling out repressive rule over its 7.5 million people. The world responded with empty hand-wringing.”

Aspistrategist

Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s executive director and a former deputy secretary for strategy in the Department of Defence

18 Oct 2021 6 7

Natasha Kassam

Inserted 2 years ago

“During the anticorruption drive, no one knew who might be targeted next. What it led to was inertia. Officials were too terrified to make decisions in case they were the wrong ones; you'll see a similar chilling effect on the private sector.”

Nytimes

China analyst with the Lowy Institute in Australia

05 Oct 2021 4 4

Yuen Yuen Ang

Inserted 2 years ago

“The very definition of what development means in China is changing. In the past decades, the model was straightforward: It was one that prioritized the speed of growth over all other matters. It is clear by now that Mr. Xi [Xi Jinping] wants to end the Gilded Age and move toward a Chinese version of the Progressive Era, with growth that is more equitable and less corrupt.”

Nytimes

Political science professor at the University of Michigan

05 Oct 2021 7 2

Herbert Raymond McMaster

Inserted 2 years ago

“China will keep turning up the heat with provocations in the region, especially next year since Xi [Xi Jinping] will likely continue as chairman for an unprecedented third term. It is a very dangerous time. I think it is probably not the most dangerous time yet. I do think that 2022, as many people have pointed out, is a critical period.”

Taiwannews

Former United States National Security Advisor (2017 to 2018)

04 Oct 2021 2 7

Maya Wang

Inserted 2 years ago

“A lot of people have characterised the Chinese government in more recent years as a more institutionalised form of governance despite the fact that it's a dictatorship. I think the sweeping changes that are being brought on as part of Xi consolidating power asks to what extent that understanding of the Chinese government is accurate.”

Aljazeera

Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch

30 Sep 2021 3 3

Dexter Roberts

Inserted 2 years ago

“Xu [Xu Jiayin] is a colourful figure. He lived an extravagant lifestyle that is now frowned upon by Xi [Xi Jinping] as he kicks off his 'common prosperity' campaign. For a long time, Evergrande's business model, borrowing large sums of money and aggressively selling apartments that have not even been built, seemed like a smoking gun. Xu is also one of those people Beijing now finds distasteful - flashy and over the top. I'd be really surprised if he emerges from this crisis unscathed.”

Theguardian

Senior fellow at the Washington DC-based Atlantic Council Asia Security Initiative

25 Sep 2021 3 5

Lim Dae-geun

Inserted 2 years ago

“Beijing's regulation [Chinese authorities bolstering regulations on the entertainment sector] is more likely a part of the CCP's effort to buttress its political system. After Xi Jinping took office in 2013, he first tightened his grip on the political sector, eliminating his archrival Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing Municipality. Bo was later sentenced to life in prison on charges of corruption and power abuse. Xi then turned his attention to businesspeople like Jack Ma, the former executive chairman of the Chinese technology behemoth Alibaba Group, and now it seems the time has come for the culture and entertainment realms.”

Koreatimes

Professor of Ingenium College of Convergence Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) and an expert of Chinese cultural studies

18 Sep 2021 8 4

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“[Xi Jinping] needs the legitimacy of leading members of the party for an unprecedented additional term, especially when he is not normatively following a term limit convention - convention, not law - in the post-Mao era.”

“He [Xi Jinping] is like a sponge that can take all the positive things from the past - what he thinks is positive about Mao and Deng - and he can bring them all together. In that telling he is China's own end of history. He has reached a level that cannot be surpassed.”

“Mr. Xi [Xi Jinping] sees history as a tool to use against the biggest threats to Chinese Communist Party rule. He's also someone who sees that competing narratives of history are dangerous.”

“This is about creating a new timescape for China around the Communist Party and Xi [Xi Jinping] in which he is riding the wave of the past towards the future. It is not really a resolution about past history, but a resolution about future leadership.”

“During the anticorruption drive, no one knew who might be targeted next. What it led to was inertia. Officials were too terrified to make decisions in case they were the wrong ones; you'll see a similar chilling effect on the private sector.”

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