Fewsmith in Bloomberg: Xi’s New Title
Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s new title highlights China’s continuing power struggles.
Fewsmith made the argument in a February 2, 2016, article in Bloomberg Business, which quotes him as follows:
“If all this is really pointing to the declaration of Xi as the ‘core’ leader, then it suggests there might be some big changes at the 19th Party Congress,” said Joseph Fewsmith, a political science professor at Boston University who studies China’s elite politics and wrote “The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China”. The move would “make the 19th Party Congress even more critical in establishing the party leadership.”
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Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (January 2013). Fewsmith travels to China regularly and is active in the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. Learn more about him here.