Daniel Mattingly: “After Xi: The Succession Question Obscuring China’s Future—and Unsettling Its Present”

Daniel Mattingly, Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, has an article in Foreign Affairs entitled “After Xi:  The Succession Question Obscuring China’s Future—and Unsettling Its Present.”

Abstract:
or more than a decade, Chinese politics has been defined by one man: Xi Jinping. Since Xi assumed leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, he has made himself into a strongman ruler. He has remade the CCP elite through a wide-ranging purge and corruption crackdown. He has curbed civil society and suppressed dissent. He has reorganized and modernized the military. And he has reinvigorated the role of the state in the economy.

Daniel Mattingly is the author of The Art of Political Control in China.