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IL11: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise ft. Susan Shirk

Top Traders Unplugged

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Xi Jinping's Anti-Corruption Campaign Was a Purge

Xi Jinping takes over in 2012, and he's taking over a situation where you've got these different power bases that have been kind of unchecked. Corruption has been, has spread. So he comes in and says, I'm going to clean up. And he starts concentrating power, tackling corruption, purging the top generals of the military. That was quite like internally domestically popular move initially.

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