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China’s Self-Governance System Only Serves the CCP

China’s Self-Governance System Only Serves the CCP
Chinese Premier Li Qiang (bottom left) walks to the podium as Chinese leader Xi Jinping (center), and other senior officials look on before his speech at the opening session of China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2025. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Stu Cvrk
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Deciphering Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s periodic public statements could be a cottage industry. Some of his assertions and urgings are head-scratchers, given their divergence from easily verified facts. Take his pronouncement last month that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members “need to advance full, rigorous self-governance of the Party by fostering good conduct.”

Stu Cvrk
Stu Cvrk
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Stu Cvrk retired as a captain after serving 30 years in the U.S. Navy in a variety of active and reserve capacities, with considerable operational experience in the Middle East and the Western Pacific. Through education and experience as an oceanographer and systems analyst, Cvrk is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he received a classical liberal education that serves as the key foundation for his political commentary.