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

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The Dynamic of Power Concentration in China

Under Hujintao, China was ruled by a nine-man political oligarchy of senior leaders in the party. The barons at the top are very protective of their own interest groups and started hyping international threats to get more bigger budgets for agencies they were in charge of. And what I call the control coalition, the internal police, this public security bureaucracies, the state security bureaucracies,. They basically hijacked Chinese policy and became very, very powerfulby hyping these threats.

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