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Consensus-Building Toward a New Top Priority

Pekingology

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The Importance of TFA in China's Political System

One of the key tools that you've utilized is a TFA. It's really hard to overstate the importance of TFA within China's bureaucratic structure. If a CCP leader advances a new policy idea in a speech or other outlet, it'll be in a TFA and we can determine whether that policy is accepted and implemented by the degree to which the rest of the official media landscape repeats it. The issuing and repeating of TFA in political or in official media and party documents is a sort of call and response between a leader who demands loyalty and other party leaders or local implementers who are expected to be out high.

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