Susan Shirk on Xi Jinping’s Overreach

Susan Shirk is a former U.S. government official and one of America's leading scholars of modern Chinese politics. She is a research professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, where she chairs the 21st Century China Center. She first traveled to China in 1971, with the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars. From 1997 to 2000, she served as a U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs. Her books in

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Susan Shirk on Xi Jinping’s Overreach

“I don’t see any sign right now of any organized elite resistance to Xi. But while I can’t tell you what will happen, when it happens I won’t be surprised.”

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