Those assessing China’s rise must weigh an unsettling possibility: that Xi Jinping’s purges of party officials, far from being self-defeating, have become part of the system itself. If so, their role may be to strengthen it https://t.co/WbKUoRV90YIllustration: Hanna Barczyk https://t.co/Jh6KoRw5Sg ...

The recent purges of party officials in China have fuelled a debate. Do they mean that Xi Jinping is weaker than he appears since he cannot trust his own people? Or, rather, are they evidence of his iron grip? https://t.co/QgYuHxhCps ...

Those assessing China’s rise must weigh an unsettling possibility: that Xi Jinping’s purges of party officials, far from being self-defeating, have become part of the system itself. If so, their role may be to strengthen it https://t.co/SzTYmy7daT ...