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The expansion of China's administrative state during COVID, with Yale Law's Taisu Zhang

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The CCP's Quest for a Fresh Source of Legitimacy

I've also been thinking about the foundations of, of political legitimacy in China. And I always enjoy my interactions with you because you are able to kind of step back and look at the kind of meta historical questions. So there was this notion that for the last 180 years, the question that's really been at the center of Chinese political and intellectual life has been how do we attain wealth and power? With those things attained, perhaps a need for new foundations for political legitimacy, right?, he says.

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