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| Title: | Xi Jinping’s Consolidation of Power at the 20th Party Congress: Implications for Chinese Foreign Policy |
| Authors: | Zhao, Suisheng |
| Contributors: | Issues & Studies |
| Keywords: | Xi Jinping;Chinese foreign policy;national security;China dream;a showdown with the US;Taiwan |
| Date: | 2023-06 |
| Issue Date: | 2023-07-14 09:14:34 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October 2022 secured Xi Jinping’s third term as General Secretary and secured a team of supporters amid socioeconomic woes and increasingly hostile global circumstances. While leadership matters in all political systems, it matters much more in totalitarian and authoritarian ones. Political leaders in democracies are constrained by electoral cycles, term limits, and approval ratings, but the leaders of the PRC’s single-party system that emphasizes discipline, hierarchy, and democratic centralism operate relatively unchecked by bureaucracy, opposition forces, or public opinion. Its leaders possess the ultimate decision-making authority in national security and strategic policies (Zhao, 2022, p. 5).
The consolidation of Xi’s power has far-reaching implications for China’s foreign policy. As a feared, sycophantically revered, and ruthless emperor confident in his country’s military power and economic clout, Xi feels equipped to accomplish his mission of making China great again. He has also inherited a pervasive insecurity of pushback from Western powers that threatens his authoritarian rule. He has therefore upheld the security of the regime beyond Deng Xiaoping and his decades of prioritizing growth. Proactively stifling any opposition to his rule and cracking down on any hint of a “color revolution” at home in connection with foreign forces, Xi has strengthened the military and reorganized the economy in preparation for a possible showdown with the United States. He has required Chinese diplomats to act as “wolf warriors” in diplomatic battles and fight criticisms of the regime even at the cost of escalating international tensions. While his team of supporters has maximized his power to implement his policies, this has also prevented his colleagues from counseling against any mistakes they may anticipate or discover. Intentionally or not, he has minimized opportunities to correct his mistakes and increased the stakes and the risks they present, raising the potential for his country to become embroiled in a foreign adventure of no return. |
| Relation: | Issues & Studies, Vol.59, No.2, 2340005 |
| Data Type: | article |
| DOI 連結: | https://doi.org/10.1142/S1013251123400052 |
| DOI: | 10.1142/S1013251123400052 |
| Appears in Collections: | [Issues & Studies] 期刊論文
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