Tag: legitimacy

  • A great paragraph: Wen Jiabao as prodding CCP rule

    At China Elections and Governance, Yawei Liu, head of the China program at the Carter Center, has an interesting read on CCP legitimacy and Wen Jiabao’s (self-serving) suggestion that even top leaders are helpless in the face of increasingly entrenched interests. The mere fact that the Wen argument is self-serving, however, doesn’t invalidate the point:…