This week on Druktalk, ‘The intelligence Tibet podcast’, Drukthar chats with Riga, an observer of economic and politcal developments in China, on ‘Xi Jinping and China’s future’. They examine the upcoming 20th Party Congress and discuss if Xi really is different from previous leaders? Finally, they explore the multiple future pathways of China

Reading Recommendation

-Desmond Shum: "Red Roulette"

-David Shambaugh: "China's Leaders: From Moa to Now" 

- Victor C. Shih: "Coalition of the Weak" (Cambridge University Press 2022)

- Joseph Torigan: "Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion: Elite Power Struggles in the Soviet Union and China after Stalin and Mao" (Yale University Press 2022)

-Joseph Torigian: "The Shadow of Deng Xiaoping on Elite Chinese Politics" (War on the Rocks, 2017)

- Cai Xia: "The Weakness of Xi Jinping" (Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2022)

- "China's Grand Strategy: Trends, Trajectories and Long-Term Competition" (RAND 2020)