Victor Shih is a professor of political science at the University of California San Diego, where he is also director of the 21st Century China Center. A well known and prolific commentator on China’s political and financial scene, his most recent book, Coalitions of the Weak, describes how elite Chinese politics has worked since the late-Mao era until the present day. We recently met in London to discuss the ramifications of the Party’s moves against big tech companies in recent years combin