Jaw-Jaw: Will Xi's Third Revolution Last?
War on the Rocks
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🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
What is Xi Jinping's "revolution" in Chinese politics? How did he amass the power to enact his ambitious agenda? Is he in danger of being toppled? Or is he effectively a dictator for life? In the second episode of "Jaw-Jaw," Liz Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations and our host Brad Carson discuss the future of China and its powerful leader, Xi Jinping. Please enjoy the newest addition to the War on the Rocks family of podcasts.
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Biographies
Elizabeth Economy is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. In June 2018, Dr. Economy was named one of the "10 Names That Matter on China Policy" by Politico Magazine. Her most recent book is The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State (2018).
Brad Carson is a professor at the University of Virginia, where he teaches in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001-2005 and was Undersecretary of the Army and acting Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness in the Obama Administration. Feel free to write him at brad.carson@warontherocks.com to share any feedback you have.
Links
- Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Touchstone, 2003).
- David Shambaugh, China Goes Global: The Partial Power (Oxford University Press, 2013).
- John Pomfret, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present (Picador, 2017).
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ryan Evans. I'm the editor-in-chief of War on the Rocks and I'm proud to introduce the second episode of our newest podcast series |
| 0:18.2 | Jaja hosted by Brad Carson. In this first season of Jaja, Brad is tackling China and U.S. Chinese relations, |
| 0:25.0 | and he's going to be talking to all the top experts on that subject. |
| 0:28.0 | Be sure to subscribe to Jaja, that's JAW, JAW on your podcast app of choice and enjoy the show. |
| 0:35.0 | Oh and one more thing. |
| 0:37.0 | In introducing the first episode, I made the mistake of saying Brad is a former congressman from Nebraska |
| 0:41.0 | when in fact he's a former congressman from Oklahoma. |
| 0:44.0 | Go Sooners. Welcome to Jaw Jaw, I'm your host Brad Carson. I served in the U.S. House of Representatives under President George W Bush and the Defense |
| 1:05.8 | Department under President Barack Obama. |
| 1:08.8 | Now I'm a professor at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. |
| 1:14.4 | And this season on Joja, we're going to talk about China, one of the great questions of our time. |
| 1:21.0 | Today we have as a guest, Elizabeth who's the CV star senior fellow and |
| 1:26.3 | director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of the |
| 1:31.7 | terrific new book, The Third Revolution, |
| 1:34.0 | She Jing Ping and the new Chinese state. |
| 1:37.0 | Dr. Elizabeth Economy, your new book is called The Third Revolution, |
| 1:43.3 | She Jin Ping, and the new Chinese state. |
| 1:45.9 | Can you tell me what is the Third Revolution |
| 1:48.0 | and what is the New Chinese state? |
| 1:50.9 | Sure, I think she Jinjian-Ping describes the Third Revolution better than anybody else. |
| 1:56.5 | If you look back to the speech he gave in October of 2017 when he was re-selected as General Secretary of the Communist Party for his second five-year term. |
| 2:07.0 | About halfway through his three and a half hour speech, he uttered the phrase, |
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