Fewsmith in Bloomberg on China’s Party Congress
Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on China’s upcoming Party Congress and the future of Wang Qishan, the Party’s anti-corruption chief, who is expected to retire from the country’s top political body.
Fewsmith was quoted in an October 10, 2017 article in Bloomberg entitled “One Man’s Future May Foreshadow Xi’s Plans to Retain Power.“
From the text of the article:
Joseph Fewsmith, a Boston University political science professor who has written several books on China’s elite politics, said that Jiang instituted the cut-off to keep a rival from securing a third term on the Standing Committee.
“Rules are there — not as abstract rules — but directed at particular political opponents,” Fewsmith said. “Whatever the purposes are, they somehow get enshrined as rules that can constrain political power, but I don’t think that’s likely.”
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.