Professor Jinghan Zeng analyzes "Community of Shared Future for Mankind," "New Type of Great Power Relations," and above all "Belt and Road Initiative."
One quibble: "The relevant arguments assume that China’s highly centralized authoritarian system can be easily mobilized"?
The author assumes that China’s system is both highly centralized and authoritarian, when it is neither. A glance at the budget reveals, for example, that the lion's share of state revenues go to or remain in the provinces, which have broad latitude in how they choose to reach their five year goals.
And where do those five year goals come from? 96% of regular Chinese say the goals come from them and they like the country's direction right now...
Thanks, interesting take. I think that’s how I see the three global initiatives as well, not fully thought out strategies, but a general invitation to participate and engage in jointly creating a better world. But they are more than mere “political slogans”.
If that is the good professor's understanding of Chinese governance, then why should we take his speculations seriously?
Follow the money, and the PRC looks more like a federation of states with different languages and dialects. China provincial governments accordingly get a bigger share of responsibility and the vast bulk of central government revenues.
Promotions come from solving, in your district, a national problem that Beijing has asked for help with. That's literally front-page stuff at the world's biggest, most trusted newspaper, People's Daily.
Problem-solving is, after all, what good government is all about. Not rhetoric.
One quibble: "The relevant arguments assume that China’s highly centralized authoritarian system can be easily mobilized"?
The author assumes that China’s system is both highly centralized and authoritarian, when it is neither. A glance at the budget reveals, for example, that the lion's share of state revenues go to or remain in the provinces, which have broad latitude in how they choose to reach their five year goals.
And where do those five year goals come from? 96% of regular Chinese say the goals come from them and they like the country's direction right now...
Thanks, interesting take. I think that’s how I see the three global initiatives as well, not fully thought out strategies, but a general invitation to participate and engage in jointly creating a better world. But they are more than mere “political slogans”.
China’s highly centralized authoritarian system??
If that is the good professor's understanding of Chinese governance, then why should we take his speculations seriously?
Follow the money, and the PRC looks more like a federation of states with different languages and dialects. China provincial governments accordingly get a bigger share of responsibility and the vast bulk of central government revenues.
Promotions come from solving, in your district, a national problem that Beijing has asked for help with. That's literally front-page stuff at the world's biggest, most trusted newspaper, People's Daily.
Problem-solving is, after all, what good government is all about. Not rhetoric.