Making Sense of the Chinese Communist Party’s Pivotal 6th Plenum

November 12, 2021 — Asia Society President and CEO Kevin Rudd joins Christopher K. Johnson, president and CEO of the China Strategies Group, for a conversation about the just-concluded 6th plenum of the Chinese Communist Party. The conversation, moderated by Mary Kay Magistad of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, examined what the plenum means for the political future of China and of its powerful leader, Xi Jinping. (1 hr.)

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[renawong]

Chinese people are not stupid, we are extremely pragmatic about what kind of life we prefer. So good governance outweighs everything else, especially when more and more Chinese have the chance to see the world as a whole, you make your own judgement of what's right and what's wrong. It's not that CPC is perfect, by no means a human organization CAN BE perfect, but as a governing body, their peers on the world stage are just extremely lousy, they are either incompetent or evil(evil being the part that they don't even have the slightest intention to solve social problems), or BOTH.

Anyone with a sane mind would choose CPC at the moment unless their core interest has been hurt in a great deal by the CPC, say Jack Ma, who i believe will come to his senses? After all, what is he if he's not Chinese or not doing good for Chinese people?

[peterfu]

Good discussion, billions grassroots fully supports the leadership who can protect their interests; the elite and wealthy are unhappy while they made billions in China

[kokleongchew]

Chris has a good understanding of China ! 👍

[jac]

Both brilliant and had a deep understanding of Chinas political play..very insightful on a very dry subject...

[globalroamer]

Reframing history is straight out of 1984

[ebindanjan]

What exactly are these contributions for example in dialectical materialism?

[bx]

Chris has an more relevant sight of analysis of Xi and China.

[Steve-moqp]

Explanation of middle income trap, central to parts of this discussion (from Bloomberg)
The middle-income trap describes how economies tend to stall and stagnate at a certain level of development, once wages have risen and productivity growth becomes harder. Relatively few make the transition to high-income status. The history of those that have, such as South Korea and Taiwan, points to a need for the state’s role to retreat as markets advance. At higher income levels, economies become too complex for command-and-control management by individuals. Systems are increasingly what matters. Rules that are transparent, predictable and fairly applied enable market forces to take over the job of directing economic activity, raising efficiency and allowing innovation to flourish.

[craigrik]

… and if you’re a Marxist he would get 2 out of 10 but if you were a Lee Kaun Yewist he would get a 10 out of 10, the Asian way