Is there a good introductory read on like kremlinology but for China?
It’s like I’m not sure what to think about when I think about “China.” The party? Xi? Various powerful families? Their monetary policy?
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🤔 what do you think about when you think about India or the US? I bet if you made a short list of each of those things you’d sort of see China looming at you as the... haha... the third body
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Both are relatively transparent. WYSIWYG democracies where even the patterns of corruption and capture are well known.
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I don't know of a good introductory read. It may be helpful to skim the abstracts of past issues here and build a mosaic:
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The Party amazon.com/Party-Secret-C and then Richard’s new Xi pamphlet to bring it up to the present. amazon.com/Xi-Jinping-Bac
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