Is Foreign Aggression the Next Step for China?

Is Foreign Aggression the Next Step for China?
A paramilitary police officer stands guard in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on March 11, 2018. Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in crisis. That may seem to be an exaggeration, but it’s not. The Party is facing the greatest challenges to its leadership since Tiananmen Square in 1989. In fact, the risks to the Party’s legitimacy are even higher today because the Party could rely on rising levels of exports to the West and direct investment from it. That’s no longer the case.

James Gorrie
James Gorrie
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James R. Gorrie is the author of “The China Crisis” (Wiley, 2013) and writes on his blog, TheBananaRepublican.com. He is based in Southern California.
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