Xi Jinping's long, hot summer

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Culture, China News, Hangzhou, Chinese, International Relations, Chongqing, Beijing, Sichuan, Currentaffairs, China, Politics, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, China Economy, News, China Politics, Business, Film, Shenzhen

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Jude Blanchette, the Senior Advisor and China Practice Lead at Crumpton Group's China Practice. We pick his brain on the rumors swirling around Beijing this summer, about public criticisms of Xi’s leadership, about the lack of any real succession plan in the eventuality that Xi is somehow incapacitated or steps down, and an emerging political science literature on authoritarianism. Jude has also discussed Chinese politics on Sinica on three other occasions in the past two years: Neo-Maoists: Everything old is new again; Nationalism in Russia and China; Takeaways from China’s 19th Party Congress. Recommendations: Jeremy: War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence, by Ronan Farrow. Jude: The Youtube channel “Epic rap battles of history,” particularly their 2013 video on “Rasputin vs Stalin” — Jude calls it “a great way to learn about how closed political systems work through OK rap.” Kaiser: Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the cynical podcast, the week of the discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SUPChina.
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0:25.6	It's up, china.com.
0:31.3	It's a feast of business, political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world.
0:36.8	I'm Kaiser Guo, and today I am in Washington, D.C., well, actually in Arlington, but close enough, where I'm going to be a taping a little batch of shows this week.
0:39.9	Joining me from the rustic comforts of Goldcorn Holler, where he is overseeing the completion of what is shaping up to be a lovely new home on the southwestern outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, is to me.
0:50.4	Mr. Jeremy Goldcorn, a man whose alarming undergrowth of beard reminded me when I
0:55.8	stopped through Nashville recently and saw it why the modern science of forestry is wise to have
1:01.0	recognized the importance of occasional wildfires to forest management. Jeremy, greet the people
1:06.4	from behind that ridiculous Bromsey and Bush. That's ridiculous, Kaiser. Hello, people.
1:12.4	Ridiculous only proportion to that growth under your chin.
1:15.8	Anyway, Fay doesn't like it.
1:18.5	Fantan has to say she doesn't like it either.
1:21.1	But I like it.
1:22.0	I think it's cool.
1:22.7	It makes you look like a revolution.
1:24.1	Nobody likes it.
1:26.5	And that's why you like it.
1:28.2	Yep.
1:29.5	So if those who carefully watch such things are to be believed,
1:33.1	Xi Jinping has had a rather eventful and challenging summer.
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