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} }
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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