Fewsmith in Investment Magazine on China’s Party Congress
Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on how an upcoming leadership reshuffle in China, the world’s second largest economy, could affect global investment.
Fewsmith was interviewed for a August 3, 2017 article in Investment Magazine entitled “Investors Watching Ahead of China’s Leadership Reshuffle.”
From the text of the article:
Boston University professor Joseph Fewsmith says a key thing to watch at this Congress will be how Xi somehow paves a pathway to continuing to exercise power after his two five-year presidential terms end in 2022. Fewsmith predicts that Xi will try to write himself and his philosophy into the party constitution, to give himself a status similar to Mao’s and Deng’s.
“He could continue to be the central force for 10-15 years without any problem,” Fewsmith says.
Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (January 2013). Fewsmith travels to China regularly and is active in the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. Learn more about him here.