{"id":11534,"date":"2014-08-06T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=11534"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:22:06","slug":"joseph-fewsmith-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2014\/08\/06\/joseph-fewsmith-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Fewsmith on China’s New Leader and His Leadership Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fewsmith\"<\/a>Prof. Joseph Fewsmith<\/a>\u00a0of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University has recently been in demand by the media to explain the leadership style of Chinese President Xi Jinping. A leading global expert on \u00a0domestic politics and power elites in China, Prof. Fewsmith is the author of\u00a0China Since Tianamen<\/em>\u00a0(2nd edition, 2008) and\u00a0The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China<\/em>\u00a0(2013), amongst others.<\/p>\n

Prof. Fewsmith elaborated extensively on questions related to Chinese politics \u00a0in an interview published in the widely read website\u00a0Gongshiwang<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(6 August, 2014; in Chinese). He was also quoted in\u00a0The Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(August 4, 2014) on the scandal involving global fast-food giant McDonald’s operations in China, in the context of political corruption and the perils of one-party rule:<\/p>\n

“Even in an authoritarian system, if you can administer law more or less impartially, that might be enough to keep the system going for a while. But it really doesn’t get at the question of rule of law.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earlier, on July 30, 2014, Prof. Fewsmith was quoted by\u00a0Bloomberg News<\/a>\u00a0commenting on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s swift and strong consolidation of power in the wake of the\u00a0crackdown on elite corruption, including on former Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang:<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least in the reform era, no other member of the Standing Committee has been attacked for corruption\u2026\u00a0The fear has always been that if factional infighting is taken to the Standing Committee level, then it might deepen rifts and make maintaining the appearance of unity more difficult.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Prof. Fewsmith also points out that the handling of the situation shows that\u00a0\u201ceverybody has now signed off on the handling of Zhou\u2019s case,\u201d and that this demonstrates the strong hold President Xi now has on power in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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