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#07 Kenneth Lieberthal: China under President Xi Jinping (EN)

MERICS China Podcast

English - March 01, 2016 15:11 - 8 minutes - 5.59 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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1 March 2016President Xi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. He has centralised power and has cracked down hard on dissent. But, argues Kenneth Lieberthal of the Brookings Institution in Washington, Xi’s tight grip on power doesn’t necessarily make him a more efficient leader.