Summary of Elizabeth Economy's The Third Revolution

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Chinese Politburo Standing Committee, the seven men who lead the country, is chosen almost entirely behind closed doors. The runup to this particular selection process was particularly fraught, as it was the first time in twoandahalf decades that the general secretary of the CCP was not handselected by Deng Xiaoping.
#2 The new members of the Politburo were largely unknown quantities. Xi Jinping, who had served as general secretary of the Communist Party for three decades, was largely an unknown quantity.
#3 Xi Jinping, the new general secretary, spoke at a press conference shortly after the new leaders made their appearance at the Great Hall of the People. He called for the great revival of the Chinese nation.
#4 The Chinese Dream is the idea that China should double its percapita GDP by 2020, have a military capable of fighting and winning wars, and meet the social welfare needs of its citizens.

Sujets

• Diplomacy
• International relations

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669373674
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Elizabeth C. Economy's The Third Revolution
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Chinese Politburo Standing Committee, the seven men who lead the country, is chosen almost entirely behind closed doors. The run-up to this particular selection process was particularly fraught, as it was the first time in two-and-a-half decades that the general secretary of the CCP was not hand-selected by Deng Xiaoping.

#2

The new members of the Politburo were largely unknown quantities. Xi Jinping, who had served as general secretary of the Communist Party for three decades, was largely an unknown quantity.

#3

Xi Jinping, the new general secretary, spoke at a press conference shortly after the new leaders made their appearance at the Great Hall of the People. He called for the great revival of the Chinese nation.

#4

The Chinese Dream is the idea that China should double its per-capita GDP by 2020, have a military capable of fighting and winning wars, and meet the social welfare needs of its citizens.

#5

Xi Jinping believed that China was at an inflection point. The post-Mao era of reform and opening up had yielded significant gains, but the Communist Party had become corrupted and devoid of an ideological center.

#6

After Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, China began to recover from the political strife and social upheaval that had marked much of his quarter-century tenure. In the early 1980s, the Chinese leadership began to relax state control over the economy, which allowed provincial and local officials to develop their economies and diminished Beijing’s ability to influence them.

#7

China’s economy and political system have been changing rapidly since the 1980s, and this has been matched by changes in Chinese governance abroad. China has joined the World Trade Organization, and its leaders have assured the international community that China’s rise will be peaceful.

#8

As China continued to grow, so did the calls within China for the country to assume its rightful place on the global stage. The Communist Party lost its ideological rationale, and many of its members used it as a stepping-stone for personal political and economic advancement.

#9

Xi Jinping, the current leader, has set out to run the relay race differently from his predecessors. He has deepened the role of the Communist Party and state in society and in the economy, and has sought to elevate China’s role in world affairs.

#10

Xi Jinping’s Chinese Dream is to rejuvenate the Chinese nation. He has accumulated more institutional and personal power than any other Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. He has expanded the role of the state in society and increased the power of the party’s organs of control.

#11

Xi Jinping’s call for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has accelerated the shift in China’s foreign policy towards one that actively seeks to shape global norms and institutions.

#12

The Chinese government has implemented many reforms to modernize the country, and its third revolution is centered around political institutions and processes, state-society relations in the Internet, and the economy.

#13

China’s economy has been growing rapidly, and the country has been trying to support the development of an electric car market. However, these policies threaten to keep weak actors alive while crowding out investment opportunities for potentially stronger technologies.

#14

The Xi-led leadership is playing a long game, and they are centralizing power and control over information in order to limit the influence of foreign ideas and economic competition. This has deprived the government of important feedback mechanisms from the market, civil society, and international actors.

#15

China’s ambition to lead a globalized world offers both opportunities and challenges for the outside world. While China exports not only its labor and environmental practices through investment, but also its political values through a growing foreign media presence, Confucius Institutes, and government-affiliated student organizations.

#16

Xi’s third revolution has been successful in consolidating his power and mandate for change. However, all of his reform priorities face significant and, in some cases, growing contradictions.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In January 2013, the editor of Southern Weekend, Tuo Zhen, was censored for writing an editorial that called for political reform and constitutionalism. The protest went viral, and several popular national personalities adopted the cause.

#2

The New Chinese leadership, led by Xi Jinping, was on the cusp of launching a set of far-reaching political reforms designed to strengthen the role of the Communist Party and party values throughout the Chinese polity.

#3

Xi has accumulated significant authority over all policy matters. He has used political institutions and political culture to centralize power in his own hands.

#4

The CCP’s propaganda department and state-run media have cultivated a political image of Xi as both admirable and approachable. However, some Chinese are wary of the intense adulation of Xi. It reminds them of the personality cult that developed around Mao.

#5

The concentration of power in Xi’s hands has led to bottlenecks in decision-making. Deng Xiaoping warned in 1980 about the dangers of too great a concentration of power, and many Chinese believe that Xi is simply trying to self-serve.

#6

Xi’s institutional power at the top of the Chinese political hierarchy does not automatically grant him the personal loyalties or broad-based institutional or popular support he needs to realize his ambitions. He has promoted officials he trusts to important positions, and has changed the PLA to promote his allies.

#7

Xi Jinping has attacked the Communist Youth League, a training ground for the party’s elite, to stack the political deck in his favor. He has also launched a number of campaigns to reform the CCP and its relationship with the Chinese people.

#8

Chinese political culture is steeped in corruption. It has appeared throughout Chinese history as a source of significant public resentment and a contributing factor to the decline and collapse of many Chinese dynasties.

#9

The Chinese political system was not equipped to follow through on the promise of the 1979 Criminal Law and 1997 revised version, as it lacked the transparency and independence from political influence that effective law enforcement requires.

#10

Xi Jinping’s campaign against corruption was more personal and profound than any other leader’s since Mao Zedong. He raised the issue directly during his time as an official in Fujian Province in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and he knew better than anyone how widespread corruption was.