Xi Jinping's long hot summer

This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Jude Blanchette of the Crumpton Group, a keen observer of the CCP leadership. We pick his brain on the rumors swirling around Beijing this summer, about public criticisms of Xi’s leadership, about the lack of any real succession plan in the eventuality that Xi is somehow incapacitated or steps down, and an emerging political science literature on authoritarianism. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.