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Yuen Yuen Ang on Xi Jinping, the Party bureaucracy, and authoritarian resilience

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Shiting Pei - Is He Trying to Impose Personalist Control Over the State?

You looked at some data that showed or tat that led you to conclude that the state bureaucracy is still somewhat independent. And i think you were referring to my analysis of the central direct exactly that, right? That's right. So i did an r an automated text analysis of all of the central directives issued in china since 19 78. It has always been that the state council issues the vast majority,. i think it's over 80 %, of the central directive. The changes are happening, but it's not as if he overturned the entire bureaucratic system.

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