Fewsmith in Bloomberg on Potential Xi Power Play
Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on how the fall from grace of a rising star in China’s Communist Party could signal a reorganization of the country’s top officials under President Xi Jinping.
Fewsmith was interviewed for a July 17, 2017 article in Bloomberg entitled “Downfall of Chinese Rising Star Points to Xi Power Play.“
From the text of the article:
“The 18th Party Congress approved Sun Zhengcai and Hu Chunhua for the Politburo, and both were viewed as possible successors to Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang,” said Joseph Fewsmith, a professor at Boston University who studies China’s elite politics. “So now, part of the decision of the 18th Party Congress has been overturned. We’ll see if the other part is,” he said.
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.