{"id":20360,"date":"2015-12-22T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=20360"},"modified":"2021-02-04T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:33:11","slug":"fewsmith-in-bloomberg-xi-jinpings-tumultuous-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/12\/22\/fewsmith-in-bloomberg-xi-jinpings-tumultuous-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Fewsmith in Bloomberg:<\/i> Xi Jinping’s Tumultuous Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"China,<\/a><\/p>\n

Joseph Fewsmith,<\/a> Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a> said that support\u00a0in the military meant that Chinese President Xi Jinping was able to end 2015 in a position of power.<\/p>\n

Fewsmith made the argument in a Dec. 22 article in\u00a0Bloomberg Business\u00a0<\/em>entitled “China’s Year of Tumult Puts Xi’s Governance Under the Microscope.”<\/a><\/p>\n

From the text of the article:<\/p>\n

[Xi Jinping’s]\u00a0November meeting with Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou set a new high-water mark in relations with the party\u2019s civil war rival.\u00a0And the initiative to streamline the 2.3 million-member People\u2019s Liberation Army\u00a0strengthened his grip on the ultimate guarantor of party rule.<\/p>\n

“He had a difficult time in the middle of the year, but the military reforms suggest he is back on track,” said Joseph Fewsmith, a political science professor at Boston University who studies China\u2019s elite politics. “Not his best year, but ending on a high note.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the entire article here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently,\u00a0The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China\u00a0<\/i>(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.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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