Epstein Secrets

bility is enhanced by their independence from the government, influential Chinese think tanks tend to have close ties to the government. Sometimes the State Council assigns certain tasks to the Academy. For example, professors working for CASS were asked to develop proposals for a new civil law. In another case

f consumers and patriots. But farmers, unemployed university graduates and the people in western China also want their share of success. President Hu Jintao himself has identified corruption, the opposite of good governance, as one of the EFTA00711974 greatest threats to party dominance. In the 2011 T

e. Zhu Muzhi, the former chief of the Xinhua News Agency and a vice minister of propaganda, was its first head. In 1991, the group was transferred to the State Council, where it was still internally referred to as the External Propaganda Group. For foreign consumption, however, it was called the State Council Infor

After Deng retired as paramount leader, these principles continued to guide China’s international behavior in the leadership eras of Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao. Admonishing Chinese to “keep your heads down and bide your time,” these Party leaders sought to emphasize that China’s rapid economic development an

Propaganda Office, 447»). The reason for the two names is because it straddles two bureaucratic systems—the party and the state. It is formally under the State Council, but it is also overseen by the Chinese Communist Party’s External Propaganda Leading Group (or EPLG). This bureaucratic duality is what the Chinese

a. American popular culture has enjoyed worldwide influence for decades and is a key element of the country’s soft power. However, by the end of the Hu Jintao era, China’s leaders had begun calling for their country, too, to become a soft power leader, a theme Xi Jinping has continued to stress. The subsequ

ciding who could enter the race was unpalatable. The State Council's white paper on the governance of Hong Kong, inten

W YORK TIMES « Need to consolidate power. Xi was not selected by Deng Xiaoping, the archi- tect of reform, as were his predecessors (Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao), and he was not elected by the people. Conven- tional wisdom had it that Xi would be a weak leader. In order to realize his Chinese Dream, Xi needs