The Next Task for China’s New Leaders
Despite continuing uncertainty surrounding China’s coming political transition, pragmatism – the common thread among its leaders after Mao – will most likely carry over to the new cohort. If so, the new leaders will see that their best strategy, both internally and internationally, is to strengthen China’s rule-of-law institutions.
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BEIJING – On a recent fact-finding trip to China, organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations, I began with the assumption that the country’s biggest challenge revolved around the need to promote domestic consumption in order to maintain rapid economic growth. By the end of the trip, what had emerged was a complex picture of Chinese assertiveness and uncertainty, poise and anxiety.