Tag: Brookings Institution

  • Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive not a factional struggle, or not one we recognize?

    Cheng Li, director of the Thornton China Center at Brookings, and his assistant director Ryan McElveen argue at China-US Focus that Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive is genuinely the most significant ever in the People’s Republic of China. They also seek to refute speculation that Xi is simply trying to eliminate competitors from one or more…

  • 'National interests' and dealing with U.S.–China distrust

    From Kenneth Lieberthal, a political scientist now at the Brookings Institution, writing in a new report with Chinese scholar Wang Jisi, “Addressing U.S.–China Strategic Distrust“: Too little understanding of how the Chinese political system actually functions also leads easily to Americans’ viewing Chinese decision making as strategic, coordinated, and disciplined. Disparate conflicting outcomes produced by…