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Examining Strategic Narratives in Chinese Official Discourse under Xi Jinping
Research suggests that over the last two decades China has undergone dramatic changes in its communication climate. The former mono-glossic environment has made way for a plurality of voices, now debating (non-sensitive) political, social and economic issues on online fora. While this has contributed to a more consultative state-society relationship, the leadership still wields the conductor’s baton over the ensemble of voices to ensure adherence to the main melody. The uneasy coexistence of transformation and conservatism is especially salient when it comes to propaganda and soft power, which the Chinese authorities fully deploy to disseminate their vision of the ‘China story’ abroad and to legitimize continued CCP rule at home. This paper examines the various strategic narratives that cumulatively constitute this ‘China story’, designed for the international as well as domestic audiences. It looks into divergences/convergences with the political discourse of previous generations of leadership by examining argumentation patterns and discursive strategies used in speeches and texts produced by top-level officials and their ‘core’ leader, Xi Jinping. While, on the surface, new slogans, such as ‘the Chinese dream’, the ‘New Normal’, the ‘Four Comprehensives’, the ‘Community of Common Destiny’ appear to be Xi Jinping’s hallmark, and cumulatively contribute to the all-encompassing official doctrine of ‘Xi Jinping Thought’, no paradigmatic ideological change emerges from the narratives. Yet, the strategies utilised to spread ‘the China story’ are more diverse, the conductor’s baton is held more tightly, the main melody is chanted more loudly and the echoes are carried further abroad over the mountains and seas via the new Silk Road initiatives to present an alternative world order of ‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’.
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Firm Control
How has the Xi Jinping administration recentralised authority over China's politics and economy? Studies of Xi's rule often suggest that his \"core leader\" status, revolutionary heritage, and informal network of loyalists underpin this consolidation of central control. In contrast, this article focuses on the state sector to highlight how the Xi administration's recentralisation of authority is grounded in existing governance mechanisms and techniques: central leading small groups, the cadre management system, Party committees, and campaigns. Using policy documents and an original dataset on central state-owned enterprise leaders, I provide evidence that the Xi administration has leveraged each of these four methods to reclaim central authority relative to the preceding Hu Jintao administration. These findings contribute to scholarship on adaptive authoritarian governance and economic reform in China by underscoring that administrations can use existing instruments of central control in divergent ways.
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اقتباسات \الرئيس الصيني\ شي جين بينغ من وحي الثقافة الصينية القديمة
هذا الكتاب الشيق يحوي بين طياته عددا من المقولات التي اقتبسها الرئيس الصيني شي جين بينغ، من الكلاسيكيات الرائعة في الفكر الصيني القديم، وهي مقولات حول السياسة والإدارة والحكم وسيادة القانون، والعلاقات الدولية، بالإضافة إلى مقولات حول احترام الشعب وتأسيس الفضيلة، واحترام المعتقدات والتعليم والابتكار وغيرها، مصحوبا بالنصوص الأصلية مع التفسير والتعقيب.
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New Wine in Old Bottles
This paper discusses Xi Jinping’s policy of religious sinicisation (zhongguohua 中国化) and the subsequent revision of the Regulations on Religious Affairs. I argue that Xi’s fear of foreign influence has driven the direction of recent changes in religious policy in favour of indigenous or indigenised religions. I show that the effort to sinicise religions and the consequent strengthening of the existing regulatory framework risks exacerbating the challenges that the Xi regime seeks to confront in the first place.
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A Show of Strength or Weakness? China's Motivation for Temporary and Tactical Détente in the US-China Strategic Competition
This paper seeks to explain China's motivations for pursuing its temporary and tactical détente with the United States in 2023 that culminated in a summit in San Francisco at the end of that year. Against the background of the country's increasingly assertive foreign policy under Xi Jinping, this paper evaluates two hypotheses for its motivations behind the San Francisco détente: Is China seeking a temporary and tactical détente to repair the damage to its reputation and solidify economic ties with important partners in the West and elsewhere with the aim to stabilize its domestic economy, or is it seeking a window of opportunity to see its strategic environment better consolidated and more favorable for the expansion its global influence? This paper acknowledges that both explanations - strategic weakness and compromise - have explanatory power and are not necessarily mutually exclusive. At the same time, the country's efforts to consolidate an international order among like-minded states in the anti-US bloc offer a more compelling explanation for its tactical détente with the United States since 2023. Finally, this paper notes some caveats and implications of this conclusion and offers suggestions for further study.
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الصين في العصر الجديد : شي جين بينغ ومجتمع المصير المشترك
في السنوات العشر الماضية، خطت الصين خطوات واسعة - وتحديدا منذ تولي الرئيس شي جين بينغ كبرى على الساحة الدولية، حولت الصين إلى لاعب شي جين بينغ .زعامة الحزب الشيوعي الصيني وئاسة الصين على طريق التنمية الداخلية، والتي نقلت المجتمع ومجتمع المصير المشترك الصيني نقلات نوعية على الأصعدة كافة، ونقلات أساسي ومهم على مسرح أحداث العالم. وخلال فترة حكمه طرح الرئيس الصيني للعالم مبادرة وفكرة. أما المبادرة فهي \"الحزام والطريق\". المشروع التنموي العملاق الذي سارع معظم دول العالم للانضمام إليه والاستفادة منه، وأما الفكرة فهي \"مجتمع المصير المشترك للبشرية\"، والتي تكشف للعالم أن الصين تسعى لوجود عالم بلا قطب أوحد، ولا تتمنى أن يكون العالم قائما على تبعية وخدمة بعض سكانه للبعض الآخر. وهنا في هذا العمل البحثي الذي يفك شفرة الصين في عشر سنوات حزبا ودولة ودبلوماسية. يقدم الباحثان: الأستاذ عماد الأزرق المتخصص في الشأن الصيني خلال 15 عاما فضاها في أروقة الصحافة الصينية وأخبار الصين ودكتور أحمد السعيد المتخصص في الشأن الصيني عبر رحلته الطويلة مع اللغة والنشر والثقافة والدراسات الأكاديمية الصينية: أجوبة عما يجول في خاطر القارئ العربي حول الصين. وهذا الكتاب هو دراسة وبحث وتوثيق جديد من نوعه عربيا، ومليء بالمعلومات والاكتشافات التي سيجد فيها القارئ إجابات على كثير من تساؤلاته عن الصين
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The Dao of Happiness in Contemporary China: On the Encompassing Meanings and Affects of “Xingfu”
The notion of happiness has been extended in recent decades from a quality of well-being to a value-laden concept employed in political campaigns, development plans, commercial advertising, and transnational psychology. In China, the term xingfu has extended through this tendency, articulated as an equivalent of deep-seated individualised “happiness,” while also carrying elements of livelihood and social welfare. Drawing on fieldwork in psychological workshops and diverse academic and political texts, this article conceptualises the semiotic and communicative attributes of xingfu in Chinese society today. I define xingfu as a contemporary dao, in the sense that it emerges as a consensual priority that alludes to seeming universal humanity, which may be employed to validate other political agendas, while it also activates diverse interactions and imaginaries that extend beyond preexisting or fixed priorities.
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