Xi Jinping and the National Security Commission: policy coordination and political power

D. Lampton

DOI:10.1080/10670564.2015.1013366

Corpus ID: 154685098

Xi Jinping and the National Security Commission: policy coordination and political power

@article{Lampton2015XiJA,
  title={Xi Jinping and the National Security Commission: policy coordination and political power},
  author={D. Lampton},
  journal={Journal of Contemporary China},
  year={2015},
  volume={24},
  pages={759 - 777}
}

D. Lampton

Published 2015

Sociology

Journal of Contemporary China

This article discusses the rationale for, and progress to date of, creating a National Security Commission in China, a move first announced in late 2013. Central impulses for the Commission's establishment are to help better coordinate a very fragmented bureaucracy and to advance Xi Jinping's drive to consolidate his personal power over the internal and external coercive and diplomatic arms of the governing structure. The Commission is a work in progress and its full institutional maturation… CONTINUE READING

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