Fewsmith in Bloomberg: Xi Jinping’s Tumultuous Year
Joseph Fewsmith, Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, said that support in the military meant that Chinese President Xi Jinping was able to end 2015 in a position of power.
Fewsmith made the argument in a Dec. 22 article in Bloomberg Business entitled “China’s Year of Tumult Puts Xi’s Governance Under the Microscope.”
From the text of the article:
[Xi Jinping’s] November meeting with Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou set a new high-water mark in relations with the party’s civil war rival. And the initiative to streamline the 2.3 million-member People’s Liberation Army strengthened his grip on the ultimate guarantor of party rule.
“He had a difficult time in the middle of the year, but the military reforms suggest he is back on track,” said Joseph Fewsmith, a political science professor at Boston University who studies China’s elite politics. “Not his best year, but ending on a high note.”
You can read the entire article here.
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.