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Chinese Policymaking Made Easy with Trivium China

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The Complexity of the Deep State

The true deep state in China are these 90 million party members throughout government, throughout the SOEs and throughout private industry. Trey: This is a classic Leninist organization. It is extremely hierarchical. But I think what that means is that if you are a 35-year-old ambitious person, you don't have a lot of leeway to do what you want to do. You really are a tiny, tiny cog in a giant machine.

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